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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I would certainly like to support the amendment. Whether you object to the Equality Bill or not, there will be plenty of time to look at it and change it in this House. If it becomes law, in whatever form, it is clearly sensible that it is observed, regardless. As the noble Baroness said in her introduction, there are all these other objectives. Public confidence is, above all, the right one to pick, but they are all relevant here. There is absolutely no reason, if all the other objectives are in the Bill, for equality not to be. I strongly support the amendment.