Clause 4
Equality Bill
1:45 pm
Vera Baird (Solicitor General, Attorney General's Office; Redcar, Labour)
I hope none the less that the hon. Lady accepts that there is no reference at all to medicality in the Bill. The existing law talks about being under medical supervision, which may be what has misled her, but there is nothing here. We have deliberately left that out. The process is a personal one that an individual chooses to go through—I did not want to argue about the presence or absence of free will or any other way it might be driven, but it has nothing to do with medicality. I hope she has got that point.