§ Mr. BryantTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will bring forward the Commission for Racial Equality's draft statutory code of practice on the duty to promote race equality. [51717]
§ Angela EagleYesterday I laid before Parliament the Commission for Racial Equality's draft statutory code of practice on the duty to promote race equality.
The code of practice will offer practical guidance to public authorities on how to meet their duty to promote race equality. Once the code of practice is brought into effect it will be admissible in evidence in any legal action, and a court or tribunal should take relevant provisions of the code into account.