Absolutely. I am grateful to the Solicitor-General for that clarification. My concern is that, in the example that I gave earlier to the Leader of the House, if a business chose to avoid employing people from an ethnic minority, for example, and its work force were therefore 100 per cent. white, it might be that employer's preference to retain a 100 per cent. white work force. We are giving that employer the choice, as the Solicitor-General puts it—not the requirement or the obligation—to continue to discriminate against ethnic minorities, by choosing to tackle the under-representation of women in that work place.
Equality Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Brady of Altrincham
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 May 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Equality Bill.
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