§ Mr. Jannerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he has taken, since the coming into effect of the code of the Commission for Racial Equality on 1 April, to ensre compliance by his Department and, in particular, with the recommendations in respect of ethnic monitoring and of positive action, respectively.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe Treasury has not carried out any ethnic monitoring. However the Inland Revenue, the Department for National Savings, Her Majesty's Stationery Office and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, took part in the surveys of the ethnic origins of non-industrial civil servants in the north-west and the county of Avon which I announced in the House on 24 March 1983 at column461. We shall consider further action, once the results of these surveys have been evaluated. The kind of positive action the code recommends can be undertaken only where under-representation can be demonstrated.