HL Deb 29 October 2002 vol 640 cc22-3WA
Lord Clarke of Hampstead

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they intend to bring forward the Commission for Racial Equality's draft code of practice on the duty to promote race equality in Scotland. [HL6256]

Lord Filkin:

I have today laid the Commission for Racial Equality's draft statutory code of practice on the duty to promote race equality in Scotland.

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.