Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Lord Chancellor's Departmemt – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 May 2001.
Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department
12:00,
8 May 2001
We seek constantly to review the balance and make-up of benches. It is important that hon.
Members on both sides of the House support us in every step that we take along the route to ensuring that the bench is properly representative of the community from which it is drawn. We are doing well in recruiting in the ethnic communities, but we have a lot more to do, and that message needs to go out from the House.