The Equality Act goes further than the earlier duties, introducing powers allowing ministers to introduce regulations insisting that employers undertake equal pay audits.
Restrictions on borrowing should also be lifted, retention of stamp duty introduced, and council tax powers devolved.
The nurse coming on duty introduced herself as Mrs. L., because, she said, her actual name was long, Polish, and unpronounceable.
The new duty, introduced through legislation, will form part of the response to the government's Pension Transfers and Exit Charges consultation.
As the Guardian revealed last week, ministers have been studying the impact of a new homeless prevention duty introduced by the Labour administration in Wales last year.
It is worth remembering the origins of the public sector equality duty – it developed from the race equality duty, introduced in 2000 to address the institutional racism identified in the Metropolitan police's investigation into Stephen Lawrence's murder.
Changes to stamp duty, introduced by the chancellor, George Osborne, mean that although the majority of homebuyers will pay less in stamp duty, buyers of homes costing more than £937,500 now pay more, hitting the prime London market.
The society said changes to stamp duty introduced in December's autumn statement meant that almost 235,000 homebuyers in England and Wales had paid less tax, saving an average of £1,800 each.
But, recently, Call of Duty introduced an option to play as a female character.
Dyson said he could not understand why businesses would stop investing because of the prospect of import duties being introduced on trade between the UK and Europe.
