Ministerial role

Minister for Women and Equalities

Organisations: Equality Hub, Government Equalities Office, and Race Disparity Unit

Responsibilities

The Minister for Women and Equalities has responsibility for:

  • promoting equality of opportunity for everyone, and reducing negative disparities
  • strategic oversight of Government’s equality policy, for women, ethnicity and LGBT
  • sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission and Equality and Human Rights Commission
  • overview of the overarching equalities legislative framework, including the Equality Act

Before July 2014, this role was covered by the Minister for Women and the Minister for Equalities.

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch

    2022 to 2024

  2. The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss

    2019 to 2022

  3. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2019 to 2019

  4. The Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt

    2018 to 2019

  5. The Rt Hon Amber Rudd

    2018 to 2018

  6. The Rt Hon Justine Greening

    2016 to 2018

  7. The Rt Hon Baroness Nicky Morgan

    2014 to 2016