The Commission has responded to a number of consultations issued by goverment departments and other agencies.
Please also see consultation responses specific to Scotland.
Response to consultation: Acas's draft Code of Practice on the extended right to request flexible working.
Response to consultation: Fee remissions in the first-tier tribunal (immigration and asylum chamber) (CP24/2012)
Ministry of Justice
Response to consultation: Judicial Review: proposals for reform (CP25/2012)
Review of the Operation of Schedule 7: A Public consultation
Home Office
The Future of Narrative Reporting - A new structure for narrative reporting in the UK
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Response to Government consultation: Implementing employee owner status.
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Response to the Government’s 'Consultation on a New Safeguarding Power'
Response to Draft Care and Support Bill consultation
Response to Department of Health
Response to the Bill Of Rights Commission's Second Consultation
Response to consultation on the Richard Review of Apprenticeships - Call for Evidence
Issued by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Education
Draft Enhanced Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures Bill
Response to Joint Committee's call for evidence
Equality Act 2010: Removing: (a) employment tribunals' power to make wider recommendations in discrimination cases; and (b) the procedure for obtaining information.
Issued by the Home Office
Equality Act 2010 - employer liability for harassment of employees by third parties
Issued by the Home Office
Position paper on Equal Civil Marriage
Issued by the Home Office
Response to consultation on forced marriage
Issued by the Home Office
Response to the consultation on the Cross Government definition of domestic violence
Issued by the Home Office
Response to consultation on charging fees in Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunals
Issued by Ministry of Justice
Response to draft statutory JSNA and joint health and well being strategy guidance
Issued by Department of Health
Response to consultation: Justice and Security Green Paper
Issued by the Ministry for Justice
Commission's response to Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the Justice and Security Green Paper
Issued by the Ministry for Justice
Response to consultation: Auxiliary Aids for Children with Disabilities
Issued by Department for Education
Response to consultation: Women's Rights, Gender Equality and National Human Rights Institutions.
Issued by OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Response to Consultation on Modern Workplaces
Issued by HM Government, Business, Innovation and Skills and Government Equalities Office
Response to consultation: Gender Diversity on Boards
Issued by Financial Reporting Council
Response to consultation:Â Ensuring good behaviour in schools: guidance for governing bodies, head teachers, school staff and employers
Issued by Department for Education
Response to Consultation: A new approach to special educational needs and disability
Issued by Department for Education
Response to consultation: Civil Partnership on Religious Premises
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to Government consultation: Strengthening Women's Voices in Government
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to Consultation on proposed exceptions to the ban on age discrimination
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to Ensuring good behaviour in schools: Guidance for governing bodies, head teachers, school staff and employers
Issued by the Department for Education
Response to Inspection 2012. Proposals for inspection arrangements for maintained schools and academies from January 2012
Issued by Ofsted
Response to Government consultation: Building a fairer Britain - Reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to Equality Act 2010: The Public Sector Equality Duty: reducing bureaucracy
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to consultation on resolving workplace disputes
Issued by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Response to consultation on reform of legal aid in England and Wales
Issued by the Ministry of Justice
Response to Improvements to Ministry of Justice statistics
Issued by the Ministry of Justice
Response to the Sentencing Council's Consultation on Draft Guidelines for Assault
Issued by the Sentencing Council for England and Wales
Response to Equality Act 2010: The public sector Equality Duty - Promoting equality through transparency
Issued by the Government Equalities Office
Response to the consultation - Phasing out the default retirement age
Issued by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills / Department for Work and Pensions
Response to introducing a pupil premium
Issued by the Department for Education
Response to SEN and Disabilities Green Paper - Call for Views
Issued by the Department for Education
Response to consultation on the future direction of skills policy
Issued by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Low Pay Commission consultation on the national minimum wage
21 September 2010
Submission: Review of counter terrorism and security powers
13 September 2010
Response to Consultation: When should the state pension age increase to 66?
Response to HM Treasury consultation on National Minimum Wage workers: Travel and subsistence expenses schemes.
Published May 2010.
Response to Consultation on Recording and Reporting Incidents of Bullying Between Pupils, and Incidents of Abuse against School Staff
Published 11 March 2010
Policy response: Protect, support, provide - examining the role of grandparents in families at risk of poverty
Published 2 March 2010
Rights and responsibilities: developing our constitutional framework
Issued by the Ministry of Justice, March 2009
Response to DPPs Consultation on Assisted Suicide
Issued by the Director for Public Prosecutions 9 December 2009.
Response to Implementation of the Agency Workers Directive: Consultation on draft regulations
Issued by Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, October 2009
Response to research on skills and social inclusion
Issued by the National Skills Forum
Response to Choice for Families: Additional Paternity Leave and Pay
Issued by Depatment for Business Innovation and skills, September 2009
Response to 'Shaping the Future of Care Together' - Adult Social Care consultation
Issued by the Department of Health, July 2009
Response to consultation on ending age discrimination in services and public functions
Issued by the Government Equalities Office, June 2009
Response to 'Equality Bill: Making it work'
Issued by the Government Equalities Office, June 2009
Response to consultation on the national minimum wage for apprentices
Issued by the Low Pay Commission
Response to 'Keeping the right people on the DNA Database'
Issued by the Home Office, May 2009
Response to Implementation of the Agency Workers Directive
Issued by BERR/BIS, May 2009
Reponse to consultation on giving children and young people a right to appeal
Issued by Department of Children, Schools and Families, April 2009
Response to 'Ending child poverty: Making it happen'
Issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, January 2009
Response to Care Quality Commission reviews in 2009/10 (Word 74kb)
Issued by the Care Quality Commission, December 2008
Response to 'Improving protection from disability discrimination'
Issued by the Office of Disability Issues, November 2008
Response to Consultation on a National Framework for Assessing Children and Young Peoples Continuing Care
Issued by the Department for Health, October 2008
Response to Implementing the Recommendations of Imelda Walshs Independent Review - Amending and Extending the Right to Request Flexible Working to Parents of Older Children
Issued by Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, August 2008
Response to Youth Crime Action Plan 2008
Issued by the Home Office, July 2008
Response to Comprehensive Area Assessment
Issued by the Audit Commission, July 2008