§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken, since the coming into effect of the code of the Commission for Racial Equality on 1 April, to ensure compliance by his Department and, in particular, with the recommendations in respect of ethnic monitoring and of positive action, respectively.
§ Mr. BrittanMy Department took part in the recent surveys of the ethnic origins of non-industrial civil servants in the north-west and in the county of Avon, and I am considering, in consultation with my colleagues, what further action to take in the light of the information obtained from these surveys.