Clause 11 - Penalty
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill
4:00 pm
Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
Well, happily I have presented a draft on the avoidance of race discrimination, which is entirely right and proper. I want to have that duty. As I understand things, if the Bill is passed as drafted, we have an ongoing obligation under the Race Relations Act to ensure that this measure, and all others on the statute book, comply with that Act. In the normal fashion, it is in part about working with the CRE, which we need to do, and about research once the measure is bedded in for an amount of time and, as is normal for employment law, through regular engagement with the EC system and assorted employment tribunal cases. I take that point very seriously. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for saying what he did in a guarded way, not necessarily saying that it is absolutely certain that there will be problems of that nature; we are and will remain alive to that issue.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 11 ordered to stand part of the Bill.