Clause 26
Equality Bill
1:30 pm
Lynne Featherstone (Hornsey and Wood Green, Liberal Democrat)
I rise to support amendment 10. I, too, want to probe the Minister’s thinking about the exclusion of under 18s from the protection of the Bill. The commission wishes us to probe the Minister’s thinking. It strongly supports the amendment, because it believes that the clause would introduce discrimination to under-18s. It says that the amendment would bring that age group within the full scope of the proposed public sector equality duty set out in clause 143. I share the concerns of some of the organisations that have contacted me.