§ Mr. VazTo ask the Attorney-General if he will list the numbers of industrial tribunal members; and how many are(a) black,(b) Asian and(c) women.
Mr. JacksonI have been asked to reply.
There are 1,599 members of the industrial tribunals, of whom 382 are women. Information on the racial origin of members has been systematically collected only since 1986 and is not available in the form requested. However, of the 1,599 lay members we estimate that there are 50 from the ethnic minorities: 18 Afro-Caribbean, 15 Asian and 17 whose particular racial origin is not currently recorded.