We have no particular problems with that, but that is the whole difficulty. Ideally, I would prefer there not to be different provisions for different strands of inequality. The Bill is an attempt to set up the commission, but several attempts have been made during the Bill’s passage to try to address various other inequalities, mostly with a spectacular lack of success.
Equality Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Sandra Gidley
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 January 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Equality Bill (HL).
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