Equality Bill
12:00 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
Okay. We come quickly to two other points. The first came out of Mr. Wadham’s earlier remarks. Do you see the Equality and Human Rights Commission as the custodian in relation to developing inequalities? Is there a possibility of identifying separate protected characteristics that might need protection, especially in the Bill as drafted? If, for example, caste, or something dreadful such as being an MP in current circumstances, were to be regarded as grounds of discrimination—or harassment even—would you consider that the sort of machinery that would bring matters forward to the attention of Ministers?