Clause 18 - Human rights
Equality Bill
9:45 am
Meg Munn (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry; Sheffield, Heeley, Labour)
I shall regret having spoken on clause stand part. The hon. Gentleman raises an interesting point. However, the Bill’s current purpose is to emphasise the importance of that co-operation. We shall have, for the first time in this country, an institution to support the 1998 Act and to deal with human rights issues, so we wanted to be clear about that in the Bill. His point goes wider than the clause. If he will allow me to write to him, I can deal with his point in more detail.