areas of deprivation. The government then issued a response document in December 2017, setting out how they hoped to responde to each of his 35 recommendations. In June 2020 David Lammy questioned the progress of the Government's implementation of the Lammy Review. Alex Chalk responded that "Sixteen recommendations have been completed. Two have been rejected and seventeen are in progress. Of those seventeen in progress, eleven will be completed within twelve months and six thereafter." David Lammy responded that he was "disappointed [in the claims that] 16 of the recommendations I made in the Lammy Review, had been 'implemented'. When in fact the majority of them had not." He added that there is a "huge difference between implementing and completing the actions you [the Government] committed to following my recommendations". He further stated how injustices highlighted in the review had got worse since, saying "When I completed the review, 41% of children in prison came from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background. Now the figure is 51%. The proportion of all stop and searches on black people has increased by 69% over 5 years. The average custodial sentence for a black person is almost 10 years longer than a white person." References Racism in the United Kingdom Islamophobia in the United Kingdom Antiziganism in the United Kingdom Black British history