§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he last carried out an analysis of information required for ethnic monitoring of his Department; and whether he proposes to take steps within his Department to comply with the monitoring provisions of the Commission for Racial Equality's code on ethnic monitoring.
§ Mr. ButcherMy Department is currently taking part in the surveys of the ethnic origins of non-industrial civil servants in the north west and the county of Avon announced by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Treasury in the House of Commons on 24 March 1983. —[Vol. 39, c.461.] I will consider further action, in consultation with my colleagues, in the light of the results of these surveys.