Clause 14 — Conditions of licences for treatment

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 4:45 pm on 20 May 2008.

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Photo of Andrew Slaughter Andrew Slaughter PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt, Minister of State), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, PPS (Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office, PPS (Lord Jones of Birmingham Kt, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office 4:45, 20 May 2008

As proposed, the need for a father or for a male role model is an additional requirement to the 1990 Act. It is clearly aimed at single women or lesbian couples and is therefore an additional burden on them. How can that not be discriminatory? The hon. Gentleman asserts that that is not, but what is his evidence?