Clause 10
Equality Bill
11:45 am
Mark Harper (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Forest of Dean, Conservative)
I am not trying to pick on the hon. Gentleman, but he said that amendment 215 was not as brilliantly drafted as it might have been. I sat here, wishing to stop him before he got on to the specifics. Amendment 215 says:
“The meaning of religion or belief does not include whether, or the degree to which, a person has one or more of another protected characteristic.”
It may be that I am particularly dense, but I do not have the faintest idea what it means. Perhaps other members of the Committee do not either. Will the hon. Gentleman explain what he is getting at?