HC Deb 15 December 1988 vol 143 cc669-70W
Mr. Janner

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make a statement on his Department's programme to promote racial equality in its YTS.

Mr. Cope

The Training Agency within my Department keeps under review the series of measures it has adopted to ensure that young people from ethnic minorities enjoy full equality of opportunity as regards YTS. I attach particular importance to the agency's attempts to ensure that any obstacles to ethnic minorities joining schemes in the employer-led sector are identified and overcome with the assistance of all parties involved. The Commission for Racial Equality has endorsed the equal opportunities code of practice for YTS.