Equality Bill

Emphatically not. I am trying to ensure that people in Parliament and the world outside who might be watching have a sense of the size of the opportunity that this measure might help with. As I was explaining, there are many other causes of the gender pay gap—I am sure that everybody in the Chamber knows that—and those causes need to be addressed in other ways. Most of my other points about flexible working, child care arrangements and so on need to be addressed by other parts of Government policy and, indeed, through employer action. We have just been talking about positive action. In laymen's words, I would argue that all the other points could, and should, be dealt with through positive action to help women to achieve their potential in employment.