Equality Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
Equality Bill
Debate on bills on Tuesday, 15 December 2009,
in the House of Lords,
led by Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.
The answering
member was Baroness Warsi.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
715 c1404-18,1432-516
Session
2009-10
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Equality Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 20-EN also published.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Warsi | 715 c1411-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, what a pleasure it is to stand up today and welcome this Bill to your Lordships’ House. On...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 715 c1404 (Link to this contribution)
Moved By
That the Bill be read a second time.
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Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 715 c1404-11 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am deeply proud and privileged to introduce the Equality Bill to this House. A standard ...
Baroness Crawley | 715 c1434 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the usual channels have agreed that the noble Baroness, Lady Greengross, should now make h...
Lord Sentamu | 715 c1432-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, let me be clear: it is a fundamental principle of the Christian religion that all human be...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 715 c1436-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome and support the introduction of this Bill, which not only harmonises all the cur...
Baroness Greengross | 715 c1434-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I apologise. I mistook the timing and I am sorry.
I declare in interest as a commissioner...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 715 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
I think that I invented the Civil Partnership Bill in my own Bill. As I understand it, the noble Lor...
Lord Alli | 715 c1444 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell of Surbiton.
I welcome this...
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 715 c1442-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the need for stronger, clearer, more comprehensive and more easily enforceable equality le...
Lord Alli | 715 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
I do not mind what we call it. I have heard marriage described in many ways in itself.
The second i...
Baroness O'Cathain | 715 c1438-40 (Link to this contribution)
There are many issues in this Bill, but I intend to concentrate on two: religious freedom and the pr...
Baroness O'Cathain | 715 c1442 (Link to this contribution)
I must say to the noble Baroness the Leader of the House that I have nothing but admiration for her....
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 715 c1441-2 (Link to this contribution)
Noble Lords will forgive me if I set the record straight. Every meeting I have in this House is open...
Baroness O'Cathain | 715 c1440-1 (Link to this contribution)
May I continue? I shall write to the noble Baroness.
Apparently the Government have been advised by...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 715 c1414-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we are very grateful to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for her full explanation ...
Baroness Miller of Hendon | 715 c1485-6 (Link to this contribution)
My noble friend is quite right. As I said, the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, asked a Question in the H...
Baroness Murphy | 715 c1487-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the fundamental principles underlying the Bill cannot be challenged and, in general, I giv...
Lord Warner | 715 c1486-7 (Link to this contribution)
Well, my Lords, follow that! I rise to support this Bill and the Government’s commitment to equality...
Baroness Miller of Hendon | 715 c1484-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, like other noble Lords, and especially my noble friend Lady Warsi and the noble Lord, Lord...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 715 c1482-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to debate this Bill at Second Reading. The Government are to be ...
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 715 c1489-91 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, goes, I want to start by congratulating her on her...
Lord Ouseley | 715 c1491-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the wonderful speech made by the noble Baroness, Lady Ken...
Lord Borrie | 715 c1494-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in the 1990s, my colleagues and I on the Commission on Social Justice, set up by the late ...
Baroness Young of Hornsey | 715 c1495-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as No. 37 on your list, it is quite difficult at this stage in the proceedings not to repe...
Baroness Billingham | 715 c1474-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my first thoughts when reading the Equality Bill were, "Haven’t I been here before? Isn’t ...
Baroness Cumberlege | 715 c1472-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I start by declaring an interest. When one sees the Bill’s protected characteristics, incl...
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 715 c1470-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, welcome the Bill and I believe that it was changed for the better in the other pla...
Lord Low of Dalston | 715 c1467-70 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, very much welcome this Bill. Having grown up piecemeal over 45 years and more, equ...
Baroness Pitkeathley | 715 c1466-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, without doubt we are engaged on hugely significant legislation and it is a privilege to be...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 715 c1482 (Link to this contribution)
I hear what the most reverend Primate says, but I take the other view.
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 715 c1479-81 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I congratulate the Government and especially our talented Leader of the House and welcome ...
Lord Sentamu | 715 c1481-2 (Link to this contribution)
Before the noble Baroness sits down, since women bishops have been mentioned twice in your Lordships...
Baroness Northover | 715 c1476-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my own portfolio is international development. Many men, and especially women and children...
Baroness Howells of St Davids | 715 c1477-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am aware that I am in danger of bowling a googly tonight by what I have to say, because ...
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston | 715 c1457-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, although I am generally supportive of the Equality Bill, it is disappointing that it fails...
Lord Adebowale | 715 c1455-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I generally support the Bill. I was born in 1962, so I do not qualify, and shall not be ru...
Baroness Warsi | 715 c1459 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on a point of clarification, when the noble Baroness refers to discrimination on the basis...
Baroness Flather | 715 c1458-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Harries of Pentregarth, has already spoken most el...
Baroness Flather | 715 c1459-60 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is not a religious practice. I refer to it only as a cultural practice for Muslims from...
Lord Parekh | 715 c1460-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I greatly welcome the Bill and see it as a tribute to the Government’s commitment to equal...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 715 c1463 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I declare an interest as a barrister. I wonder whether the noble Baroness is aware that th...
Baroness Deech | 715 c1464 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention. My express intention in saying this is that I ...
Lord Graham of Edmonton | 715 c1464-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure and a privilege to take part in this debate, although I missed the early ...
Bishop of Chester | 715 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
We do not want to prolong this, but I think the noble Lord misunderstands the way in which faith com...
Lord Alli | 715 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
I hope the right reverend Prelate will accept that you cannot sack a heterosexual for having an affa...
Bishop of Chester | 715 c1445 (Link to this contribution)
Will the noble Lord accept that the stance churches take on this matter is, if you like, sexually ne...
Baroness Afshar | 715 c1447-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to thank the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, for introducing the B...
Bishop of Chester | 715 c1448-50 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, who made a very important speech which meri...
Lord Alli | 715 c1445-6 (Link to this contribution)
I hope to table an amendment to frame such a debate.
I look at this Bill, and I see possibilities—t...
Earl Ferrers | 715 c1446-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall resist the temptation to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alli, down the delicate path ...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 715 c1454-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, commend the Government for bringing forward another instalment on the long road to...
Lord Davies of Coity | 715 c1451-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the main thrust of the Bill is commendable but I wish to raise two points, both of which a...
Lord Harries of Pentregarth | 715 c1452-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, for anyone committed to equality the whole of this Bill is extremely important. Personally...
Earl Ferrers | 715 c1511 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, can the Minister add a bit to that and confirm that the exception will be in the regulatio...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 715 c1509-10 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this has not just been an interesting and wide-ranging debate, in many ways it has been a ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 715 c1511-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it will be in the regulations.
The noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, asked about the timetable...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 715 c1505-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, given the wide-ranging nature of the Bill, I think that I have to declare all my interests...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 715 c1507-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not think so. There is a role for differences in society and we should not be afraid ...
Baroness Gale | 715 c1498-500 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I welcome this Bill very much. It covers many aspects of equality. But as I am one of the ...
Baroness Wilkins | 715 c1500-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have arrived at the last Back-Bench speaker, and I will try to be brief. I, too, warmly...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 715 c1501-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a great privilege to take part in this debate, a debate which has shown the rich div...
Lord Williamson of Horton | 715 c1443 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with the agreement of the House and at the request of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, I...
Baroness Deech | 715 c1462-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I wish to address the impact that the Bill will have on the professions of law and medicin...
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