Member

There is clear precedent to this approach. The socioeconomic duty was placed on the statute book as part of Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010, but its commencement was left to the discretion of each Administration. It sat in legislation until devolved Governments chose to bring it into force within their own jurisdiction. Scotland and Wales have done so, while others have taken a different approach. That model demonstrates how Parliament can place a provision in a Bill to create legal space for progress while fully respecting devolution. Amendment 96 would follow the same approach, placing a mechanism in law that enables every part of the United Kingdom, when it is ready, to act in support of care-experienced people, whose voices we heard so clearly and powerfully last week in your Lordships’ committee room.