Equality Bill [Lords]

The hon. Gentleman makes his case as eloquently as he always does, but the premise of his argument appears to be that he wants to continue the excellent work that has been started by the Commission for Racial Equality. Will he comment on the fact that parliamentary answers that I have received show that, in the past 10 years, something like 20 claims of racial discrimination have been made against the CRE? Taxpayers’ money has been used to settle some of those cases out of court, so perhaps the CRE does not have such a good record on these matters as he would have us believe.