HC Deb 26 July 1983 vol 46 cc375-6W
Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to adopt in his Department the recommendation of the Commission for Racial Equality that employers should keep records of the ethnic origins of their work force and of job applicants who are turned down; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Brittan

Later this year the Home Office will participate in a survey of the ethnic origins of all non-industrial Civil Servants, and in selective surveys of applicants for Civil Service jobs, in the county of Avon and in the north west economic planning region—Cheshire, greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. In the light of these surveys, the Home Office will, with other Government Departments, be considering the scope for further action along the lines recommended by the Commission for Racial Equality.