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Equality Bill

The interests of the user of a service is surely not something for another day, but for us to consider when looking at these amendments. It seems to me that the issue has been extraordinarily absent hitherto because we have been discussing the rights of the people who deliver services. The effects of legislation which has been passed without democratic discussion in another place, first as secondary legislation and secondly under the guillotine, have been to very considerably injure the users of services, and that is what I hope your Lordships will concentrate on.