Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and the Equalities Minister Maria Miller both welcomed the ruling.
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"We fail to deal with it at our peril, " the equalities commission chief warned.
South East Wales AM Lindsay Whittle, who is Plaid's shadow equalities spokesperson, said the party's survey was "worrying".
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He suggested the former Labour equalities minister Harriet Harman had been "leading the country down the wrong path".
It followed a challenge the council had failed to show there would be sufficient equalities training for volunteers.
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"He also judges that I should have had rigorous regard to equalities considerations in reaching my decision, " Mr Gove added.
But shadow equalities minister Kate Green said she was "disturbed" by the ale's pump plate which featured "a nearly naked woman".
And so to Thursday , when the Commons meets at 9.30am for Culture, Media and Sport and Women and Equalities questions.
Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone will launch a consultation later this month on how to make civil marriage available to same-sex couples.
Equalities minister Jo Swinson wrote an open letter asking magazines to "shed the fad diets and fitness myths" in their January editions.
Equalities minister Maria Miller said the vote outcome was "very disappointing", and showed that the Church was "behind the times", sources said.
The Equalities Minister Maria Miller has said the government is committed to a "quadruple lock" package of safeguards to protect religious freedom.
This shift was made necessary because it's now clear that allegations were made to the party's chief whip and equalities spokesperson five years ago.
It was initially suggested Labour's equalities team might support Mr Loughton's amendment but it later put forward its own compromise proposal for an immediate consultation.
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The new Equalities Bill will have to do something much harder.
Sophie Howe: Local Government and Communities, Housing and Regeneration and Equalities.
Transport questions were followed by questions to women and equalities ministers.
It was in the party's equalities manifesto at the last election.
The bill will allow religious organisations to offer same-sex marriages but Equalities Minister Maria Miller has said no religious organisation "will ever be forced to conduct marriages for same-sex couples".
Liberal Democrat equalities spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone welcomed the proposed change.
"We are certainly anxious to do all we can to ensure that same-sex marriages arrives as swiftly as possible on the statute book, " shadow equalities minister Kate Green said.
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The Equalities Bill will be presented as a sign that Labour is seizing the initiative in the crafting of a fairer society, where no-one is held back by prejudice.
The Equalities Minister, Maria Miller told MPs last December that "the legislation will explicitly state that it would be illegal for the Churches of England and Wales to marry same-sex couples".
Under government proposals, due to be developed and then published on Thursday by Equalities Minister Maria Miller, churches and other venues will be allowed to "opt in" to holding civil marriage ceremonies.
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The government's Equalities Bill, currently in its final Parliamentary stages, is designed to change the way public services work by ordering them to take into account the needs of all groups in society.
Mr Clegg's former Parliamentary aide, Jo Swinson, and now equalities minister, has said she "took action" after some women had confided in her, but she has not specified what form that action took.
More important is the formal promise given by the equalities minister, Lynne Featherstone, to go beyond the letter of last year's law and look for ways to remove the wider inequality between gays and straights.
Then there's a mini-question time on women and equalities, for 20 minutes, before the Leader of the House, Andrew Lansley, announces what MPs will be doing when they return from their half-term break on 25 February.
"We hope these census numbers signal a new era of racial politics in our states, rooted not only in strong economies but also equalities for all people, " said Jennifer Allen, executive director of the human rights organization Border Action Network.
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