Harman announces establishment of Equality Panel

Harriet Harman, Minister for Women and Equality, has today (10 September) announced the setting up of the new National Equality Panel.

The National Equality Panel will be independent and consist of academic experts in inequality. It will be chaired by leading academic Professor John Hills and will provide the Government with an authoritative analysis of inequality in Britain by the end of 2009.

The panel will gather and examine data over the last ten years as well as the very latest avail... (287 more words)

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