ABSTRACT
The planning policies of Conservative governments of the 1980s and early 1990s focused on supporting property developers and facilitating structural changes in the economy on the terms of capital. Planning was never subjected to compulsory competitive tendering, but under the (New) Labour governments from 1997, the ethos of measuring performance in order to better manage it spread to include all of the public sector. Labour was not fixated on allowing the private sector to tender for what was currently public sector work, but it did accept that there was a need for ‘modernisation’. The Act of 2000 marked a very important shift in the legal framework in relation to race equality throughout the United Kingdom (UK). The 2000 Act created a significant apparatus for promoting race equality by public bodies, monitoring the efforts of these bodies, and also measuring at least some outcomes of the efforts.
