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Equality Bill [Lords]

Proceeding contribution from Jeremy Hunt (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 January 2006. It occurred during Debate on bills on Equality Bill (HL).
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the most important roles of organisations campaigning against discrimination is to focus the spotlight of the media on abuses where they exist? One of the dangers of the new legislation, which all hon. Members hope that the Government will be alive to, is that a single, larger organisation will not have the figureheads that we have in the person of Trevor Phillips at the CRE, or Bert Massey at the Disability Rights Commission, who are effective at getting the media to look at abuses, because of their position and their personal experience of discrimination, which makes them a powerful voice in the media.

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Reference

441 c595-6 

Session

2005-06

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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