§ Angela EagleTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what progress has been made in her Department and non departmental public bodies on implementing the requirements of the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000; and if she will publish the results of the monitoring required by the Act. [117475]
§ Dr. HowellsAs demonstration of the Department's commitment to promoting equality and diversity, one of the Department's four public service agreements has specific numerical targets for increasing the level of participation in our areas by priority groups. We published our Race Equality Scheme in May 2002 and a summary of the assessments of our functions and policies under the Act in October 2002. The results of the monitoring required under the Act were published in our departmental Annual Report, copies of which were laid before Parliament on 15 May 2003.
The majority of the non departmental public bodies sponsored by the Department are designated under the Act as public bodies in their own right and information is not held centrally.