ABSTRACT
The 1979 Conservative manifesto comprised an eightpoint programme to reduce immigration from the New Commonwealth but neither this manifesto nor subsequent ones suggested in what way, if any, community race relations would be improved. Accordingly while there was no intimation that the Race Relations Act 1976, somewhat
The 1971 report on housing by the Select Committee (House of Commons, 1971), which contained some forty-six recommendations had to wait until September 1975 for a formal response from the Secretary of State for the Environment (HMSO, 1975a). The response focused on three issues: the intention to improve the housing circumstances of ethnic minorities through general policies which were not made specific, record-keeping by local authorities and dispersal. All other recommendations were dealt with in an appendix.
