Clause 59 - Membership requirement
Equality Bill [Lords]
6:43 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
A golf club exists for the purpose of playing golf—at least, it usually does—whereas youth organisations such as the scouts and the guides exist for the purposes of personal development along the lines of the pledge that they ask people to make when they join. If young people, or their parents or organisers, want to set up another organisation along similar lines that does not require such a pledge, it is open to them to do so. I am grateful to the Government for their response on that point.