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Equality Bill [Lords]

We have not yet declared our position, so the hon. Gentleman will have to wait and see. Were we to go down a quota route for the different strands of discrimination, we would be faced with some real problems. Gender is potentially the biggest source of discrimination in society, but I would not necessarily insist on a 50 per cent. gender representation. Racial discrimination might be one of the more acute problems in society, but we run the risk of having a committee—I hesitate to use the word ““tokenistic””—whose members are chosen because of what they are rather than because of what they can do and how they can progress the agenda.