Ms Louise Bayliss:

I accept the Deputy's point and personally believe that would be a good idea. In my view, legislation to underpin the principle of equality budgeting is important. Like the Deputy, I favour increased taxation and limiting multiples of income for certain people while ensuring a basic income for others. However, this campaign is not about that. On this occasion, I am representing an amalgamation of a huge number of umbrella groups to ensure that no new decisions are made that unfairly impact any specific group. While what is proposed is not revolutionary or dramatic and will not change the world overnight, it would ensure that there is information at hand to at least underpin the concept of equality. I believe this is a moderate step, one which commences the idea and raises people's consciousness of the need for equality underpinning. This may not be as dramatic as I or members would like but I must be conscious that today I am representing an umbrella group, all of whose members do not have those viewpoints. The viewpoint I am representing today would be that from now on there should be information available to ensure that decisions made are made with full impact assessment and an understanding of the difference being made to people's lives. The purpose of this campaign is to ensure there is an underpinning of equality.