Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.

Of the Foreign and Commonwealth’s 4,560 UK employees, 3,283 (71.9%) have disclosed their ethnic origin.

Of these 3,283 staff, the following proportion have identified their ethnicity on the basis set out:

a) White – 2,869 (87%)
b) Asian or Asian British – 187 (6%)
c) Black or Black British – 110 (3%)
d) Mixed or multiple ethnic group – 75 (2%)
e) Ethnicity other than the above – 42 (1%)

These figures do not include the FCO’s 9,300 locally employed staff in our 268 overseas missions.