HC Deb 29 November 1989 vol 162 cc263-5W
Mrs. Margaret Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will consider whether there should be further general guidelines as to the amount of an award of damages for compensation for injury to feelings in cases brought under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976 following the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Alexanderv. Home Office and Noone v. North West Thames regional health authority.

Mr. John Patten

My right hon. and learned Friend considers it neither necessary nor appropriate for him to issue any such guidelines.