§ Mr. LidingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library copies of the responses which he received from organisations outside Government to his consultation about the proposed EC Directive on implementing the equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin.[126535]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe consultation was conducted at a series of five meetings with organisations outside government which were held between publication of the draft by the Commission in November 1999 and political agreement at Council in June 2000. This was due to negotiations in Brussels being conducted in closed Working Group sessions, and are, therefore, being unable to provide later versions of the text of the Directive outside government in writing.