Subordinate Legislation Committee, 05 Jun 2001
Meeting date: Tuesday, June 5, 2001
Official Report
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Equal Opportunities
The Equal Opportunities Committee is looking for a representative to attend a workshop on the mainstreaming of equal opportunities in committee work on the evening of 20 June. I do not know whether there are any volunteers.
This may well fall into the same category as the paper on the CSG from the Procedures Committee in that, from our perspective, mainstreaming equal opportunities in this committee is a bit like interacting with the public. If no one volunteers or wishes to consider it, we will put it on the agenda for a later date and advise those who are not here that there is a vacancy. We do not require to nominate anybody—it is only if we wish. Unless we nominate someone to go grudgingly we can leave it to see whether there is a volunteer.
I am being very stupid, but what does mainstreaming equal opportunities mean?
That is probably the purpose of going.
I thought that you needed to know before you went.
I am advised that they are not sure about the techniques themselves, so apparently you would have to look, learn and listen. We can come back to that at a later meeting.
Meeting closed at 11:59.