§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection why the forms currently being sent to businesses requiring licences to operate under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 also require businesses to state whether they have received a letter from the Race Relations Board or a conciliation committee in which the opinion is expressed that they contravened the Race Relations Acts.
§ Mr. John FraserThe Act requires the Director General of Fair Trading, when considering the fitness of an applicant for a licence, to have regard to,inter alia, any evidence tending to show that he has practised discrimination on grounds of race in the carrying on of any business. The questions in the forms are a matter for the Director General and I am asking him to write to the hon. Member.