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Written Question
Ministry of Defence: Islam
Tuesday 29th October 2019

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.

Answered by Johnny Mercer

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) publishes biannual statistics on diversity declarations for Armed Forces personnel and MOD civilian staff. The latest editions can be found at the following links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2019

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-diversity-dashboard-2019