Phillipson rebuffed the suggestion, saying the watchdog has only submitted missing documents – including an equality impact assessment, which supplements its code of practice – within the last week. The late additions are on top of the original documents sent to ministers in September stretching to over 300 pages.
“It is disappointing to see the EHRC commenting on this in the way that they are publicly, because we are going to get this right. We will make sure that the Code of Practice gets us into the right place, but the EHRC also need to give us the material in a timely way,” Phillipson told The i Paper.
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