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Equality Bill

I shall speak to amendment 196 in my name. I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests; to the fact, which will be all to obvious to the House, that I am over 50 years old, which is relevant to the remarks that I am about to make; and to my very considerable constituency interest in this matter, in view of the fact that Saga is the biggest employer in my constituency. I do not want to take up the time of the House unnecessarily. If the Solicitor-General is able to give me now an explicit assurance—I am sure she will have looked at amendment 196—that the provisions in that amendment will be written into the Bill or be covered entirely by secondary legislation, which was what the Government indicated they were minded to do in their consultation paper, I would be happy to sit down now and allow others to use the time that remains.