Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of people recruited as service personnel to the armed forces were from a black, Asian and ethnic minority background in each of the last five years.

The requested information is published in the UK Armed Forces Biannual Diversity Statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-index. Specifically, tables 8 and 24 of the supporting datasheets provide information on, respectively, intake by ethnicity to the UK Regulars and Future Reserves 2020.