HC Deb 01 July 1975 vol 894 c375W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make it the practice of his administration not to grant contracts worth more than £100,000 to firms which do not practise equal opportunities for ethnic minorities.

Mr. Alexander W. Lyon

The standard conditions of Government contracts already require contractors in the United Kingdom to conform to the provisions of the Race Relations Act 1968 relating to discrimination in employment but the adequacy of this provision, with many other matters, is being reviewed in connection with the forthcoming White Paper on Race Relations.

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