Clause 13
Equality Bill
4:45 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
Perhaps the Solicitor-General could help on the concern which built up in my mind as she answered. It is about the nature of the campaign itself, picking up the point that the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green made. Suppose somebody—it might be for the best of motives, or it might not—produces a campaign that is presented as a general marketing campaign but uses models who are all white. I am not talking about two or three, but about a large population. One might reasonably assume that something is going on; they are either totally culturally unaware, or they are wilfully trying to misrepresent the population. Is that activity discriminatory by itself? If so, with whom, as no service is being provided, and what action can be taken about it?