§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of(a) men and (b) women of ethnic minority backgrounds who are working in (i) the prison service and (ii) the police service in England and Wales.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggFor the prison service the available information is not in the form requested and derives from a survey conducted in 1986. Of some 11,500 members of the service (including staff in headquarters and regional offices) who responded to the survey, 111 stated that they were of ethnic minority origin. The results of a more recent survey of those who did not respond are currently being analysed.
On 30 September 1988 there were 942 male and 236 female police officers of ethnic minority background in police forces in England and Wales. There is no central record of the ethnic background of civilian police staff.