§ Mr. SinghTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many appointments to quangos he made between(a) 1 June 1997 and 31 May 1998 and (b) 1 June 1998 and 31 May 1999; and in each case of those how many were members of Britain's (i) Asian and (ii) ethnic minority communities. [92144]
§ Mr. VazOf the non-judicial public appointments to the Lord Chancellor's non-departmental public bodies, 303 were made in the first period, of which five were Asians and none were other ethnic minorities, and 199 were made in the second period, of which six were Asians and five other ethnic minorities.
My Department's plan on equal opportunities was included in the plan published by the Government on 25 May 1999 and deposited in the Libraries of both Houses.