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Equality Bill [HL]

Before the noble Lord, Lord Lester, withdraws the amendment, he let slip a very alarming prospect. I believe he said that when he and the late   Lord   Jenkins of Hillhead discussed the Sex Discrimination Bill and the Equal Opportunities Bill—that is what I think he called it—they discovered that certain words were wrong. However, I understood the noble Lord to say that the parliamentary draftsman insisted on keeping those words. Presumably the late Lord Jenkins was then Home Secretary. I find it rather alarming that the Home Secretary could not overrule the   parliamentary draftsman as a result of which the legislation that was put on the statute book was wrong. Does the noble Baroness, Lady Scotland, think that the current parliamentary draftsman—who, presumably, is not the same parliamentary draftsman that we have been discussing—is any less obdurate and any more likely to be right than his predecessor?