HC Deb 11 March 2003 vol 401 c161W
Mr. David Stewart

To ask the Minister for Women what recent research she has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated which assesses discriminatory treatment experienced by women at private members' clubs open to both men and women.[102259]

Ms Hewitt

There has been no formal assessment of discriminatory treatment experienced by women members of mixed sex private clubs.

We have consulted interested parties. For example, the Club and Institute Union (CIU), which represents over two million club members, and to which the vast majority of "working men's clubs" belong, reports that of their 2,680 clubs, some 60 per cent. still deny their female members full rights.