Clause 64
Equality Bill
11:30 am
Vera Baird (Solicitor General, Attorney General's Office; Redcar, Labour)
Okay, I will press on without the reference, although I might not be able to deal with the point made without the case being identified. New clause 25 would replace clause 64, which restates and clarifies the existing position of the definition of a general material factor. They are not a massively different remit. First let me concentrate on three aspects of the hon. Lady’s amendments, and then deal directly with the pay protection points. It may be that she can find the case in the meantime. If not, we will have to correspond about the precise terms.
New clause 25(2)(a) deals with the hypothetical comparator point again, as it says that
“A and persons of the same sex as A are or would be put at a particular disadvantage when compared with persons of the opposite sex”.
That would stop us taking on the new clause in the first place, as it is about the hypothetical comparator.