Kate Green – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Scotland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2015-11-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what steps his Department is taking to implement the family test.

David Mundell

The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. It is an integral part of the policy making process and is applied in the development of all new policy. DWP published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and my Department follows that guidance.