ABSTRACT
In Ethnic Pluralism and Public Policy perhaps the most scholarly look at the issues and problems involved in race relations policy making, there are references to the work of Political and Economic Planning (PEP). Successive PEP reports have had direct legislative consequences. It is interesting and instructive to compare Roy Jenkins' PEP-dominated outlook and its reliance on coercive legislation with that of his predecessor at the Home Office, Sir Frank Soskice. PEP's reports, issued in the period 1974-1976, on housing, employment, provided Jenkins with further ammunition to push forward his legalistic, enforced approach to race relations. There can be no doubting the thoroughness of the PEP research, or the intellectual and moral integrity of its authors. Any objective observer, willing to accept the crucial effects of time since settlement on the fortunes of immigrant communities, could have gained solace from the state of minority housing, even at the time of David J. Smith's survey.
