Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

Sir William MacPherson inquiry into the matters arising from the death of Stephen Lawrence on 22 April 1993 to date, in order particularly to identify the lessons to be learned for the investigation and prosecution of racially motivated crimes.

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Home Secretary's Action Plan

• Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: the Home Secretary's Action Plan (file size: 174kb)

• Annual Reports on Action Plans' progress

  • Fifth Annual Report 2003-2004: Lawrence Steering Group (file size: 549kb)
  • Home Secretary's Action Plan Fourth annual report on progress (file size: 252kb)
  • Home Secretary's Action Plan - Third Annual Report on Progress (file size: 189kb)
  • Home Secretary's Action Plan - Second Annual Report on Progress (file size: 404kb)

    Second annual report in other languages

    • Welsh (file size: 136kb)
    • Chinese (file size: 825kb)
    • Hindi (file size: 390.5kb)
    • Punjabi (file size: 251kb)
    • Bengali (file size: 239kb)
    • Gujarati (file size: 317kb)

    This report is also available in Urdu and can be downloaded as one large file or four separate smaller files:

    • Urdu version complete (file size: 4.5Mb)
    • Urdu version part 1 (file size: 1.2Mb)
    • Urdu version part 2 (file size: 1.15Mb)
    • Urdu version part 3 (file size: 1.1Mb)
    • Urdu version part 4 (file size: 1.1Mb)

  • First annual report

    Home Secretary's Action Plan - First Annual Report on Progress

    • pdf version (file size: 247kb)
    • HTML version

Other reports and information

• Code of Practice on reporting and recording racist incidents in response to recommendation 15 of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report
• The Final Report of the inquiry is available on the Stationery Office website
• Evidence submitted by the Home Office to the second part of the Inquiry
• The Home Secretary's Statement to the House of Commons, 24th February is available from The Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) on the Parliament website
• Phased Implementation of Recommendation 61 of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report 
  (file size: 27kb)
• The Statement by Paul Boateng MP, Minister of State, Home Office about the publication of the report of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry to the House of Commons, 26th February is available from The Official Report of the House of Commons (Hansard) on the Parliament website

Documents on similar issues on the Home Office Website

• Winning the Race - Revisited (report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary)
• The Race Relations Forum (set up by the Home Secretary to advise him on issues affecting ethnic minority communities)