Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 15 June 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what arrangements are in place to ensure that bodies within the responsibility of her Department comply with the requirements of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
The Race Relations (Amendment Act) 2000 places the general duty on a large number of specified public authorities. The core Department's Race Equality Scheme covers the Departments two smallest Executive Agencies, the Pesticides Safety Directorate and the Veterinary Medicines Directorate. The remaining Executive Agencies have produced Agency specific Schemes using the core Department's Scheme as a model. Annual progress reports are produced and the Schemes are discussed regularly as part of an ongoing review process.
In addition the Home Secretary has made Orders under the Act to place the 'specific duties' on named public authorities. These include a number of non-departmental public bodies for which Defra has responsibility in the following table. Although these Bodies are not required to produce a Race Equality Scheme they are expected to follow the lead of the core Department in addressing the general duties imposed. This list is updated periodically in consultation with the CRE and other Government departments and amended to take account of new Bodies and to delete defunct Bodies.
The Department's Race Equality Scheme is currently being reviewed and as part of this work we will be working closely with all bodies for which we have responsibility to ensure that due regard is taken of the duties imposed by the Act. The Commission for Racial Equality has reviewed the Race Equality Scheme and have commented favourably on a number of areas. Any areas highlighted as requiring additional action will be addressed as part of the current review of the Scheme.
Original order | Schedule 1A | General duty | Employment | Equality scheme | |
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Executive non-departmental public bodies | |||||
NDPB | |||||
(England and Wales) (AWB) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Agricultural Wages Committee (England) (AWC) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Apple and Pear Research Council (APRC) | — | No | No | No | No |
British Potato Council (BPC) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Countryside Agency | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
English Nature (EN) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Environment Agency (EA) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Food for Britain (FFB) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Home-Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Horticultural Development Council (HOC) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) | — | Non statutory | No | No | No |
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) | — | No | No | No | No |
Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Milk Development Council (MDC) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
National Forest Company (MFC) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Regional Flood Defence Committees | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBG Kew) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Sea Fish Industry Authority (SFIA) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS) | — | Non statutory | No | No | No |
Wine Standards Board of the Vinters' Company (WSB) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Advisory NDPBs | |||||
Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment (ACBE) | — | No | No | No | No |
Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment (ACCPE) | — | No legal status | No | No | No |
Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances (ACHS) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Advisory Committee on Packaging | — | No | No | No | No |
Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (of genetically modified organisms) (ACRE) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees (ADHACs) | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Agricultural Waste Stakeholders' Forum | — | ||||
Air Quality Expert Group (replaces the former Airborne Particles Expert Group) | — | No | No | No | No |
Air Quality Forum | — | No | No | No | No |
Committee of Investigation for Great Britain | — | ||||
Committee on Agricultural Valuation | — | No | No | No | No |
Committee on Products and Processes | — | No | No | No | No |
Consumers' Committee for Great Britain under the Agricultural Marketing Act 1958 | — | No | No | No | No |
Darwin Advisory Committee (the Darwin Initiative) | — | No | No | No | No |
Expert Group on Cryptosporidium in | — | ||||
Water Supplies | — | No | No | No | No |
Expert panel on Air Quality Standards | — | No | No | No | No |
Expert panel on Sustainable Development Education | — | No | No | No | No |
Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) | — | Non statutory | |||
Government/Industry Forum on Non-Food Use Crops | — | No | No | No | No |
Hill Farming Advisory Committee for England, Wales and NI | — | No | No | No | No |
Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB | — | No | No | No | No |
Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council | — | Yes | Yes | No | No |
National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution | — | No | No | No | No |
Pesticide Residues Committee | — | No | No | No | No |
Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee | — | No | No | No | No |
Regional Environment Protection Advisory Committees | — | — | — | — | — |
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution | — | Yes | No | No | No |
Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee | — | No | No | No | No |
Sustainable Development Commission | — | No | No | No | No |
Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee (TUSDAC) | — | No | No | No | No |
Veterinary Products Committee | — | No | No | No | No |
Water Regulations Advisory Committee (WRAC) | — | No | No | No | No |
Zoos Forum | — | No | NO | No | No |
Public Corporations | |||||
British Waterways | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Covent Garden Market Authority | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Tribunals and other bodies | |||||
Agricultural Land Tribunals | — | All judicial bodies are exempt | |||
British Wool Marketing Board | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | no |
Commons Commissioners | All judicial bodies are exempt | ||||
Dairy Produce Quota Tribunal | — | — | — | — | — |
Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal | — | All judicial bodies are exempt | |||
British Wool Marketing Board | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Chemicals Stakeholder Forum | — | No | No | No | No |
Hazardous Waste Forum | — | No | No | No | No |
National Parks and Boards Authorities | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
National Rural Development Forum | — | No | No | No | No |
Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime | — | No | No | No | No |
Pesticides Forum | — | No | No | No | No |
UK Biodiversity Group | — | No | No | No | No |
Defra and its Agencies | |||||
Defra | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
PSD | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Covered by Defra scheme |
VMD | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Covered by Defra scheme |
VLA | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CSL | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CEFAS | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RPA | Yes | — | Yes | Yes | To be covered by Defra scheme from 2004 |
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