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Equality Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Knight of Collingtree (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 19 January 2010. It occurred during Debate on bills on Equality Bill.
My Lords, in the name of consistency, and because the word "reasonable" always worries me and because it appears in these amendments, I ask the Minister if I am right in thinking that, for instance—bearing in mind what she said when she raised a certain case about a warehouse a little while ago—if a man came along to apply for a job as a bus driver, it would be reasonable or right to ask him if he had any connection or ever suffered from epilepsy? There are cases like that, which one can think of clearly, which would be reasonable—not barring him on his own health grounds but because he might, in exercising the job, be a danger to others. I think I am right in thinking that what the Minister said would make it perfectly safe and that the public would not have to lose their protection against such questions.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
716 c931 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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