Racial Abuse Complaints

David Simpson
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many complaints of racial abuse in his Department have been (a) investigated and (b) upheld in each of the last five years.

Mr. Darling
The number of formal complaints of discrimination on the grounds of race investigated and upheld in the past five years is contained in the following table:

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|              |Complaints made|Complaints upheld|
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|2006 (to date)|0              |0                |
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|2005          |3              |0                |
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|2004          |5              |2                |
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|2003          |2              |1                |
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|2002          |3              |0                |
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