{"value":{"id":600652,"askingMemberId":4370,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-10-12T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-10-17T00:00:00","uin":"48487","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the number of local authorities that have undertaken an equality impact assessment before making changes to their budget for public health.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4019,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2016-10-18T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Department carried out and published an equality analysis of the formula (developed by the independent Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation) that influenced the distribution of the grant between local authorities in 2013/14 and 2014/15. A copy of that analysis is attached.</p><p>The distribution of resources in 2015/16 and 2016/17, and indicative allocations for 2017/18, were calculated on the same basis as the 2014/15 allocations. We considered the equality implications of those decisions in accordance with the Public Sector Equality Duty. No decisions have been made on specific funding arrangements for 2018/19.</p><p>We do not collect information on equality impact assessments undertaken by local authorities.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":1,"heading":"Public Health: Finance","attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/qna-attachments/600653/original/Equality Analysis.pdf","title":"Equality Analysis","fileType":"pdf","fileSizeBytes":72270}],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/600652","method":"GET"}]}