§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether he has carried out monitoring exercises in accordance with the codes of the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission, respectively,
(2) whether he has appointed an equal opportunities officer.
§ Mr. SainsburyI refer the hon. and learned Member to the reply I gave him on 17 June.
§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has any plans to improve equality of opportunity for women and for people from ethnic minorities in all grades of his Department, in connection with employment, training and promotion, respectively.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe Ministry of Defence has an equal opportunities action plan which is reviewed on an annual basis. The aim of the plan is to set out actions required in respect of women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities in relation to employment, recruitment, training and promotion within the Department. For example these actions include ethnic monitoring of recruitment, programmes for advertising in the ethnic press and including ethnic minorities in recruitment literature, and a review of women-only training.