The Home Secretary and Minister for Women, Theresa May, last week announced that the Government will not introduce the "socio-economic" duty, set out in Clause 1 of the Equality Act 2010. That duty stated that relevant authorities,

"must, when making decisions of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions, have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage."

The Government will look to repeal the law sometime in the future.

More can be found on the Government Equalities Office website