Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1991.
Does the Minister agree, as his predecessor so clearly did, that it is unacceptable that so few people from ethnic minorities reach the higher echelons of the civil service? Will he please undertake, as his predecessor so rightly did, to make the most energetic efforts to ensure that the policy is not just something on paper—but that it is implemented?