Parliamentary search - Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011

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730 c122-56

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2010-12

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Ministry of Justice

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Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011
Monday, 27 June 2011
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Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments. Twenty-sixth report, drawing special attention to: Tractor etc (EC Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1279); Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1294); Investment Bank Special Administration (England and Wales) Rules 2011 (SI 2011/1301); Armed Forces Pension Scheme 2005 (Amendment) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1364); Immigration Services Commissioner (Application Fee) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1366).
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
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House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Renton of Mount Harry | 730 c128, (corrigendum) 382 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for allowing me to say a few words. I very much follow what he is saying and...

Baroness Verma | 730 c122 (Link to this contribution) That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 27 June be approved. Relevant document: 26th Re...

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Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c136 (Link to this contribution) I am deeply concerned about that. As the noble Lord, Lord Low, said, I am deeply concerned about rid...

Lord Waddington | 730 c136 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord concerned for one moment with the way in which it has been interpreted by public a...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c135-6 (Link to this contribution) The general duty is in Section 149 and I have already said what it covers. I obviously did not do it...

Viscount Eccles | 730 c135 (Link to this contribution) I should be most grateful if my noble friend would tell the House exactly what the general duty is a...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c133-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should declare a couple of interests before I say anything. First, I was the architect o...

Lord Tebbit | 730 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes indeed, but I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Lester, does not deny the truth of what my noble fr...

Lord Tebbit | 730 c137 (Link to this contribution) Oh, indeed, the noble Lord, Lord Lester.

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c137 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Lord, Lord Tebbit, aware that it would be unlawful to discriminate against any particul...

Lord Tebbit | 730 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend the Minister for not asking her this question before she sa...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c137 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 730 c139 (Link to this contribution) I have to say I could not quite hear what my noble friend was saying. If I have done anything wrong,...

Lord Taylor of Holbeach | 730 c139 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do hesitate to interrupt the noble Lord, but there are a number of people I know want to...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 730 c140 (Link to this contribution) I have, save for one point. This question of freedom of religion was raised as an amendment to the H...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 730 c140 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend was suggesting that the noble Lord may well have concluded.

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 730 c138-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose today is to consider some reasoned opinions as to what should be done in a hig...

Lord Clarke of Hampstead | 730 c138 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this debate has reached the point where the comments I wanted to make would be repetitious...

Lord Davies of Coity | 730 c140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was not my intention to participate in this debate. However, as a result of listening t...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 730 c140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend Lord Waddington’s amendment would not prevent the passing of these regulat...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 730 c140-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to express concern about the draft regulations being moved by the Minister, to spea...

Lord Tebbit | 730 c141-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was the noble Baroness’s Government who decreed that the upper ranks of the Civil Servi...

Lord Cormack | 730 c124 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the Government were against overregulation.

Baroness Verma | 730 c122-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to be leading this debate and to have the opportunity to explain the Govern...

Lord Waddington | 730 c125 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the above Motion, to insert at the end ““but that this House regrets that the Reg...

Baroness Verma | 730 c124-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if my noble friend will allow me to finish, he will see that this is exactly what we are d...

Lord Waddington | 730 c125-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in speaking to the amendment in my name, I should make plain what I think is known to most...

Lord Waddington | 730 c128 (Link to this contribution) I was making the very point that my noble friend touched upon. If at a time of war you can make exce...

Lord Low of Dalston | 730 c128-32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, ask the Government to undertake a rethink but from a slightly different perspectiv...

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | 730 c132-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Waddington on moving this amendment and on the moderat...

Earl of Listowel | 730 c133 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, for tabling this amendment and for the work he has...

Lord Low of Dalston | 730 c152 (Link to this contribution) As an amendment to the Motion in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Verma, to insert at the end ““...

Lord Low of Dalston | 730 c153 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what we have witnessed this afternoon is nothing more or less than a backlash against equa...

Lord Pannick | 730 c149 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Waddington | 730 c149 (Link to this contribution) I am going to finish now. We want to make it plain to people that there is real concern throughout t...

Baroness Verma | 730 c148-9 (Link to this contribution) If my noble friend allows me to continue he will be satisfied with what I am proposing. The regulat...

Lord Waddington | 730 c149 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a very good debate, and I would like to thank all those who have taken part. I...

Baroness Verma | 730 c148 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords. In continuing with this, the noble and learned Lord will see that we are trying to lay...

Lord Campbell of Alloway | 730 c148 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. My noble friend assumes that our courts will not exclude matters of religious freedom b...

Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 730 c147 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. Was not the simple point made by my noble friend Lord Low ...

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Act refers specifically to protected definitions of people. The very word ““protected”...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) No, my Lords. It defines certain disadvantages, but it does not mean to say that some people are mor...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that the Act suggested that people should be appointed if they are not prop...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I know the difference, since I am asking a question. The question that I am asking, i...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) I am not the Minister.

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the word ““protected”” simply means those protected against discrimination in those catego...

Earl Ferrers | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect, the noble Lord is doing more than making an intervention; he is making an...

Baroness Verma | 730 c144 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will deal with the points raised by my noble friend Lord Waddington and the noble Lord, ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 730 c142-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these are questions for the Minister. I am just putting my views as the spokesperson for t...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 730 c142 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry. I meant to ask whether the noble Baroness, looking at the wording, accepts that there...

Baroness Deech | 730 c144 (Link to this contribution) In her description of access, has the Minister taken into account the fact that the Government’s own...

Baroness Verma | 730 c144-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will continue with my notes. My noble friend has made clear his concerns about the issue...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 730 c145 (Link to this contribution) It is the custom in parliamentary debates for Ministers to respond to debates. Does the noble Barone...

Baroness Verma | 730 c145-6 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord were patient he would know that the points I am making relate to the points raised...

Earl Ferrers | 730 c146 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may interrupt my noble friend for a moment as one who intended to make a speech but was un...

Baroness Verma | 730 c146 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is right, but it is about ensuring that there are those equalities of opportunity. T...

Earl of Listowel | 730 c146 (Link to this contribution) I could not quite understand what the Minister just said. Could she rephrase it, because it was not ...

Baroness Verma | 730 c146 (Link to this contribution) The noble Earl may read Hansard tomorrow. In response to my noble friend Lord Tebbit, I declare an ...

Baroness Verma | 730 c147 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend asks a question that I may not be able to respond to straight away. I assu...

Lord Tebbit | 730 c147 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend waxed almost lyrical on the even-handedness of the regulations in relation to religi...

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Disclosure of information

Conditions of employment

Equality

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Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011

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