§ Claire WardTo 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 in Scotland. [78367]
§ Beverley HughesThe Commission for Racial Equality's draft statutory Code of Practice on the duty to promote race equality in Scotland has today been laid before Parliament.
The statutory Code of Practice will offer practical guidance to public authorities in Scotland on how to meet their general and specific duties to promote race equality. Once the statutory 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 of Practice into account.