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Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Answer

Mr. Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many fire and rescue services have (a) complied with their statutory duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, (b) published a race equality scheme and action plan and (c) carried out race impact assessments. [216584] Mr. Raynsford: I have been asked to reply. This information is not currently held centrally. However, under the requirements of the best value performance indicator (BVPI) 2B for local government, all fire and rescue authorities are in the process of providing the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister with information relevant to their compliance with their statutory responsibilities under the Race Relations (Amendment ) Act (RR(A)A) 2000. This information will be reported in our publication "The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Best Value Performance Indicators 2003-04" which will be available this spring. This report will be published on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's website and copies will be available in the Libraries of both Houses. Additionally the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is gathering more in-depth information on the service's compliance with the requirements of the RR(A)A 2000, in particular with regard to action planning and impact assessment. The results of this exercise will be reported to the Fire and Rescue Service Practitioners' Forum in June.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c465W;431 c462-3W; 216584

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Equality Emergency services Fire and rescue services Ethnic groups Monitoring Race relations Impact assessments

Legislation

Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000

Link

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