Clause 62 - National security
Equality Bill [Lords]
6:43 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, (Assist the Home Affairs Team); Beaconsfield, Conservative)
I should like the Minister to clarify how the national security let-out will work in practice. This ties in with clause 70, which sets out a procedure for national security issues to be raised during court proceedings on the intervention of the Attorney-General. Am I to infer that it will be necessary for the Government to show that a national security angle justifies the discrimination, or will the Secretary of State simply need to provide a certificate saying that national security applies and that is the end of it?