Government Equalities Office

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Department overview
Formed	October 2007
Jurisdiction	England
Headquarters	London, England
Annual budget	£16.7 million in 2019-20[1]
Ministers responsible	Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities Anneliese Dodds, Minister of State for Women and Equalities
Parent department	Department for Education
Website	gov.uk/government/organisations/government-equalities-office

The Government Equalities Office (GEO) is the unit of the British government with responsibility for social equality. The office has lead responsibility for gender equality within the UK government, together with a responsibility to provide advice on all other forms of equality (including age, race, sexual orientation and disability) to other UK government departments. The unit is based at the Cabinet Office. Prior to April 2019, the GEO was led concurrently by Cabinet Secretaries at the Home Office, DFID and DfE. The day-to-day responsibility for policy on these issues was not transferred to GEO when it was created. The Equalities Office currently leads the Discrimination Law Review, which developed the Equality Act 2010 that replaced previous anti-discrimination legislation. The ministers responsible for GEO are Anneliese Dodds and Bridget Phillipson, who as Secretary of State for Education fulfils constitutional requirements to have a minister at full cabinet level.