To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the estimated annual cost of the Government's proposal to set up a Northern Ireland Race Relations Agency; what is the cost per head of population, the cost per ethnic minority individual and the equivalent actual costs in these categories in Great Britain; and if he will estimate the cost of extending the existing Race Relations Agency's remit to cover Northern Ireland. [35796]

On 27 April 1995, I announced the Government's intention to introduce race relations legislation in Northern Ireland by means of an Order in Council. As part of that process, a draft proposal will be published in due course which, among other things, will suggest how that legislation might be administered. The institutional arrangements for enforcing the legislation, including the establishment of a race relations body, are therefore still under consideration.