Trevor Phillips [head of UK Commission for Racial Equality, CRE] insisted that the equalities review, commissioned by the prime minister, aims to affect controls on the private sector...Mr Phillips...said that he wanted to offer the majority of good employers incentives to be better - notably less red tape - while making the bad minority "very afraid"...But he was anxious to avoid suggestions that the private sector could become the scapegoat for deep-seated inequalities, such as the gender pay gap...The CRE head lauded business for publicly criticising the Conservative policy of setting an annual cap on migrant numbers.