asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many times the new Advisory Committee on Race Relations Research, set up by him in 1975, has met; and what funds are available to this committee for the current financial year;(2) what funds were allocated to the Advisory Committee on Race Relations Research for the years 1974–75 and 1975–76; and for what purposes they were used.

The Committee is advisory. It does not finance or undertake research and no funds have been allocated to it. It met for the first time on 14th October 1976 and a further meeting has been arranged for Tuesday 29th March.