§ Lord Dholakiaasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will monitor on ethnic grounds information held centrally on the Home Office Court Proceedings database on prosecutions brought under Section 154 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. [HL2410]
§ Lord Williams of MostynThere are no plans to monitor prosecutions brought under Section 154 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 separately for the ethnicity of the suspected offenders. However, monitoring of all prosecutions will be included as part of the new system of ethnic monitoring being developed for the criminal courts. A description of this system was included in the Home Office publicationRace and the Criminal Justice System, published in December 1997.