Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic background.

The Department does not monitor the gender, disability or ethnic composition of its executive board separately from monitoring the Department as a whole. Even if it did, gender, disability and ethnicity identity is sensitive personal data as defined by section 2 of the Data Protection Act 1998. Given the small numbers involved, we could not disclose the results of such general monitoring without infringing the rights of the individuals concerned.