Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service are of a black or ethnic minority background.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the ethnicity and rank of police officers in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area, on an annual basis. The latest available data, covering the situation as at 31 March 2019, can be found in of the Open Data Tables, published alongside the 'Police Workforce, England and Wales' statistics, available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/817735/open-data-table-police-workforce-ethnicity.ods

Data as at 31 March 2020 are due to be published in July 2020.