Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Constitutional Affairs – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 18 October 2005.
Bridget Prentice
Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs
2:30,
18 October 2005
As I said in answer to a previous question, I do not think merit and diversity are mutually exclusive. We ought to appoint people on merit, we should appoint more people from a wide variety of backgrounds—more women and more people from ethnic and other minorities—and we should ensure that we have a judiciary and a legal system that properly reflect the society in which we live.
