Clause 45 - Goods, facilities and services
Equality Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I seek simply to probe a little on the difference between provision to the public, and provision to a section of the public. I think that I know what that distinction may be, but it would be helpful if we heard from the Minister how he sees that working in practice. The is an argument that, ultimately, when one says that one is providing something to the public, it is inevitably to only a section of the public that wishes to have a particular service. That raises the question as to whether the expression “a section of the public” is not, in fact, otiose. I just wanted the Minister to explain what he has in mind.