Equality Bill.
Great Britain.Parliament.(Session 2009-10).House of Commons.
London : Stationery Office,
2009.
A Bill to make provision to require Ministers of the Crown and others when making strategic decisions about the exercise of their functions to have regard to the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to reform and harmonise equality law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation in certain circumstances; to require the exercise of certain functions to be with regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other prohibited conduct; to enable duties to be imposed in relation to the exercise of public procurement functions; to increase equality of opportunity. Government Bill published 27 April 2009. Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Government Equalities Office, are publiished separately as Bill 5-EN (ISBN 9780251519351). Two impact assessments are published alongside the Bill: (1) Equality Bill impact assessment (Version 3, House of Commons report stage, ISBN 9780108508677) looking at costs and benefits and the main measures; (2) Equality Bill - equality impact assessment (ISBN 9780108508660) considers the impact on race, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation and religion or belief.
Cover title.
"54/5."