HC Deb 01 November 1990 vol 178 c734W
40. Mr. Maclennan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will take steps to introduce ethnic monitoring of police, probation and court decisions as a general practice.

Mr. John Patten

Ethnic monitoring of both staff and case-load in the probation service will begin in 1991.I hope that the development of monitoring, where this is feasible and useful, together with our wide-ranging programme of research studies will provide coherent information about the treatment of members of ethnic minorities within the criminal justice system.