Leonard Cheshire Response To Single Equality Commission Proposal By Barbara Roche MP
LEONARD CHESHIRE RESPONSE TO SINGLE EQUALITY COMMISSION PROPOSAL BY BARBARA ROCHE MP Commenting on today's announcement by Cabinet Office Minister, Barbara Roche MP, on plans for a single equality commission, John Knight, from the UK's leading disability care charity, Leonard Cheshire, said: "Discrimination hurts not only those discriminated against but society as a whole. "It devalues society and is short-sighted. Why discriminate against disabled people when they have an estimated spending power of over £40 billion p.a. and are a huge and largely untapped reservoir of skills, absent from