To ask Her Majesty's Government how they intend to respond to the recent report Race to the Top published by Business in the Community, which stated that, since 2000, government-led race equality measures have had minimal impact in increasing top-level opportunities for black and minority ethnic managers. [HL1611]

Increasing race equality is a government priority. On 24 February, we launched a wide-reaching consultation on improving opportunities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. Our discussion document, Tackling Race Inequalities, invites views on what the Government's future approach to promoting race equality should be. The document explicitly acknowledged the findings in the Race to the Top report that many Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups are under represented in senior management positions. The discussion document can be found at www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1155456.pdf.

The progress achieved in recent years against the Government's strategy for race equality and community cohesion, Improving Opportunity, Strengthening Society, is described in the three published progress reports, the most recent of which was also published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 24 February. This can be found at www.communities. gov.uk/publications/communities/raceequalitythirdreport.

Copies of the discussion document and the progress report have been placed in the Library of the House.