Armed Forces: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 16th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many BAME personnel have been in one-star postings or above in the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 24th January 2018

The numbers of women and BAME personnel in one-star postings and above for each of the last five years can be found, respectively, in tables 1 and 2a of the UK Armed Forces Biannual Diversity Statistics (NATO rank OF6 and above). The latest figures can be found at the following address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2017

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