Mr. John D. TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons have been appointed to the post of director in the Fair Employment Commission; and how many of these are perceived to be (1) Protestants, (2) Roman Catholics and (3) other.
§ Mr. NeedhamThree persons have been appointed to director posts with the Fair Employment Commission. The commission is currently in the process of recruiting employees and will be submitting a monitoring return in accordance with section 27 of the Fair Employment (NI) Act 1989. Once the final staffing complement has been reached, the commission intends to publish detailed information on the religious composition of its staff and the progress of its affirmative action programme as a follow-up to the information published by the commission on 22 February 1989.