Colour Bias 'Must Be Made a Crime'; Race Report Risks a Row

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Byline: STEVE DOUGHTY

LAWS making racial discrimination a criminal offence were demanded yesterday in an official survey analysing where Britain's ethnic minorities live.

The call came in a report from the Office for National Statistics, which also urged the creation of all-embracing race codes for schools and the jobs and housing market.

Its demands, which would mean the police and courts enforcing the new laws, risk plunging the officially non-political ONS into controversy.

The ONS - formerly the Central Statistical Office - attached the suggestions to an analysis of race questions asked for the first time in the national census five years ago. …