Part of Equality Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:30 pm on 30 June 2009.
Mark Harper
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
6:30,
30 June 2009
For the avoidance of doubt, is the Solicitor-General saying that there are two tests, both with reserved and devolved elements, operating in the two jurisdictions, and that my example of an NHS body in Wales may affect constituents who live in England and Wales, but because it is a wholly devolved power, it would not be captured by the provision for cross-border authorities? I think that that is what she said.
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