§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of pulblic appointments made by his Department in 1993 were of(a) Asians and (b) black people; and if he will list their names.
§ Mr. NorrisStatistics are not kept on the total number of public appointments—including reappointments—made by my right hon. Friend each year. A check was made on the number of appointments held by members of ethnic minorities at 1 September 1993 as part of the Government-wide monitoring exercise for the purposes of the Cabinet Office publication "Public Bodies 1993". This revealed that a holder of one of the DOT appointments listed in it is a member of an ethnic minority. However, as information on ethnic origin is given in confidene, the policy is not to give details that would identify ethnic origins of individuals.