Assessment of Government Policies (Impact on Families) Bill

Explanatory Notes

Overview of the Bill

1 The objective of this Bill is to introduce a family perspective to the policy-making process in England. It aims to ensure that Ministers and departments recognise and make explicit the potential impacts on family relationships in the process of developing and agreeing proposals for new expenditure, administrative or policy proposals, including those for both primary and secondary legislation.

Prepared 1st December 2015