To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will answer Question HL3139 tabled on 24 April about the occasions and circumstances when Ministers of the Government Equalities Office and its predecessors have refused to give evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees during the past five years; and what is the reason for the delay in answering it. [HL4195]

I refer the noble Lord to the Answer I gave on 17 June 2009 (Official Report, col. WA 211-12).