Cabinet Office Minister Mo Mowlam will have a double-take when she comes to Bradford next month to support a ground-breaking attempt to recruit Asian young people into the civil service.

She has accepted an invitation to head up a list of top people at the launch of a recruitment video produced for Bradford Quest for Economic Development (QED) being launched on April 7.

The video - called Sarkari Mulazmat (Civil Service Careers) - has been sponsored by the Cabinet Office and will be shown at the launch at the city's Carlisle Business Centre.

But Mrs Mowlam will have already seen the video at its launch on Tuesday, March 21, at Mellbury School in Tower Hamlets in London for the video's southern premiere.

Also at the launch will be Nick Montagu, chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue who is also chairman of the Civil Service Management Board Sub Group on Diversity.

The event will be chaired by Mohammed Ali, QED's chief executive, who said: "In the video, actor Saeed Jaffrey invites us to meet six men and women of South Asian origin who have built successful careers in the civil service. We got to know that the civil service was interested in attracting people from ethnic minorities and said we were interested in helping them."

QED has spent ten years promoting various professions to Asian young people and their families.

Sir Richard Wilson, head of the Home Civil Service, said: "The Cabinet Office is proud to be the sponsor of the QED video Sarkari Mulazmat."

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