To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will take steps to establish a strategy to tackle age discrimination and promote age equality in the provision of goods and services (a) by his Department and (b) within the sector for which he has policy responsibility; and if he will make a statement. (210459)

My Department will review our approach to age equality in the light of any proposals arising from the Government’s proposals for the Equality Bill, outlined in the consultation “A Framework for Fairness”. Our departmental guidance on equality impact assessment currently includes age equality as an issue for consideration in policy development.