Police diversity report: Government's response published

22 July 2016

The Home Affairs Committee published the Government Response to its 'Police diversity' report as a Special Report on Tuesday 26 July 2016.

Chair's comment

Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Chair of the Committee, said:

"This is a complacent, perfunctory and rushed response from the Home Office. The lack of progress on ethnic diversity in police forces is a serious and embarrassing problem and we made strong, practical recommendations about how this must improve.
As our Report stated, the current position is lamentable, and has so far failed to achieve any significant progress. That is why our Report called on the Home Office and Ministers to show leadership by requiring innovation and rapid action from those directly responsible for delivering change.
We intend to take oral evidence from the newly appointed Minister for Policing on this subject when he comes before the Committee in September."

Background

The Home Affairs Committee published its report on police diversity on 21 May 2016.

Further information

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