§ Mr. Luardasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to launch the comprehensive community programmes which he announced in July 1974; and to what extent and in what way these programmes will take account of the special needs of minority ethnic groups.
§ Mr. Alexander W. LyonThe development of Comprehensive Community Programmes—CCPs—as a means of tackling the problems of urban deprivation more effectively is a long-term process. Our Department is now working with Birmingham District Council and the Institute of Local Government Studies, Birmingham University, to establish a framework for the development of CCPs in several local authorities. In preparing a CCP, the local authority will be expected to take account of the special needs of minority ethnic groups. The best way of doing this is one of the matters to be explored in the course of the work in Birmingham.