§ 49. Mr. Marquandasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he is taking to ensure that suitably qualified coloured applicants are employed in the fire service.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsI am keen to ensure that suitable coloured applicants should be given every opportunity to join the fire service, and am asking fire authorities, who are responsible for recruitment, to let 323W me have information on which a central record can be kept of the number of coloured firemen employed. I have arranged for H.M. Inspectors of Fire Services to discuss on their visits to brigades the question of recruiting men from among the coloured population.