Caroline Ansell MP has tabled a Bill that if passed will make it mandatory for governments to consider the impact that any legislation would have on family.
She has stated the following -
"The objective of my Bill, Assessment of Government Policies (Impact on Families) is to introduce a family perspective to the policy making process in our nation. The Bill will ensure that Ministers and departments recognise and make explicit the potential impacts on family relationships in the process of developing and agreeing new policy and new legislative proposals. The current proposal to further relax Sunday Trading Laws is a case in point, variously described as potentially, “causing irrevocable damage to our lives as citizens” and “the sacrifice of family life on the altar of profit”. I have concerns for small, independent (often family run) businesses in my constituency too.
I am a small state, ‘Big Society’ Conservative, so the irony of focussing on government, national and local, to strengthen family is not lost on me! The State will never love you back, it’s true, but government can set the mood music and, by virtue of its priorities, policy and pounds, can wilfully or otherwise strengthen or undermine family stability. It should use every means at its disposal to do the former." (Conservative Home, 2015).
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