§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the traditional travelling community is classified as an ethnic minority.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe criteria for defining a racial group for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976 were established by the judgment in Mandlav. Davell Lee 9W (1983). Gipsies have been accepted as meeting these criteria—Commission for Racial Equality v. Dutton (1988); the position of other travelling groups would depend on whether they satisfied the same criteria.