§ Ms Buck:To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the effect of a person's ethnicity on their access to public services. [143574]
§ Fiona Mactaggart:The Government publishes an annual edition of Race Equality in Public Services which brings together key performance management data from across the range of Government Departments. The indicators used consist of three main parts:
The first looks at comparative perceptions of public services between minority ethnic and majority communities;The second part uses performance data to describe the impact of a range of key services on different minority ethnic communities, as compared with the majority community;The third looks at what the Government are doing to promote and improve race equality within the Civil Service and related services.The fourth annual publication will be published early in 2004.