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Elections Bill

The Minister will know that I am quite astute at reading impact assessments. I have also read the equality impact assessment. The amendment

from the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, is important because the equality impact assessment relies mainly on a 2021 telephone survey, and it indicates that there will be indirect discrimination based on some of the provisions in the Bill. The impact assessment says further on that mitigation ideas will show how the mitigation will take place, but there are no mitigation provisions in the equality impact assessment; there are only the issues that the 2021 telephone survey has revealed. Why are there no mitigation provisions in the equality impact assessment?

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Reference

820 c1384 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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