HC Deb 23 July 1996 vol 282 c255W
Mr. Robert McCartney

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the titles of its research papers into fair employment practice that the Northern Ireland civil service has decided not to publish. [382941

Mr. Ancram

The policy, planning and research unit, on behalf of the central community relations unit, commissioned research on "Modelling Rates of Unemployment using the "Continuous Household Surveys 1987–89" from the department of social statistics at the university of Southampton in December 1990, and a report was received in April 1993. The research was not published as it had been superseded by a more comprehensive project, employing more up-to-date data. Two reports on this latter research, which was commissioned from the Northern Ireland economic research centre, have subsequently been published by the central community relations unit.