§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether his Department's race relations advisory service has made further contact with the 47 major private sector employers who were actively considering the introduction of ethnic monitoring when visited in the period April 1985 to December 1987; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NichollsYes. The advisory service continues to work with a number of these employers.
§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) whether he will issue a circular to major private sector employers, urging them to comply with the recommendations for monitoring and positive action for the removal of race and sex discrimination in the codes for the Commission for Racial Equality and of the Equal Opportunities Commission, respectively;
(2) whether he has asked the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission, respectively, to issue circulars to major employers in the private sector, requesting them to comply with the codes of the Commission for Racial Equality and of the Equal Opportunities Commission in respect of monitoring and positive action.
§ Mr. NichollsNo. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State previously indicated in his reply to the hon. and learned Member on Wednesday 20 April,Official Report, column 474, initiatives of this kind are matters for the commissions themselves to consider.