§ The Minister for Citizenship and Immigration (Beverley Hughes):I have now received a copy of the first interim report prepared by the Race Monitor, Mary Coussey who was appointed this year to the post created under Section 19E of the Race Relations Act 1976, as amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
The report is based on Ms Coussey's short time as Race Monitor and describes the visits to ports she has made so far and also gives an indication of her work programme for the rest of this financial year. She has not on this occasion made any recommendations.
Under the terms of her appointment, the Race Monitor will be submitting a full annual report to Parliament in March next year.
A copy of the interim report has been placed in the Library.