Departmental Equality

Mr. Lansley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to paragraph 29, page 35 of his Department’s resource accounts for 2006-07, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department’s Commission for Racial Equality Action Plan.

Mr. Ivan Lewis
As noted in the resource accounts, the action plan was incorporated into the Department’s single equality scheme (where it is included in chapter 14). The scheme was published in June 2007 and is available at:

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Equalityandhumanrights/SingleEqualityScheme/index.htm

A copy of the scheme has been placed in the Library. The Department is working to produce a revised single equality scheme by 29 February 2008.