Government contracts worth £125bn a year should be withheld from companies that pay women less than the men, a cross-party committee of MPs declares today. It found that 30 years of equal pay legislation have done little to erode the earnings gap...The committee that scrutinises the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform said the worst discrimination was in the private sector…The committee said public bodies failing to require suppliers to show an active commitment to equality might be open to legal challenge.