Armed Forces: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 1st November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in recruiting black and ethnic minority personnel to the armed services in each year from 2010 to 2015, excluding those from the Commonwealth.
The Defence workforce is not representative of the demographic within society. In order to address this the Defence Diversity and Inclusion Programme was established to increase the diversity of the civilian and military workforce, and to create a more inclusive working environment in which people are able to reach their full potential.
The Armed Forces are working towards a target of 10 per cent of recruits to come from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds by 2020, as announced by the Prime Minister prior to the 2015 election. Additionally, the Minister for the Armed Forces agreed a 15 per cent female recruitment target by 2020.
Information on recruitment of black and ethnic minority people to the UK Armed Forces from 2010 to 2015, excluding those from the Commonwealth, is shown below.
Table 1:
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) intake6,7 to UK Regular Forces1 and Future Reserves 20202 (FR20) excluding personnel from the Commonwealth by calendar year
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Rounding: Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not equal the sums of their rounded parts. |
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1. UK Regular Forces comprise full-time personnel but does not include Gurkhas, Full-Time Reserve Service (FTRS) personnel and Reservists. |
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2. Future Reserves 2020 includes volunteer reserves who are mobilised, High Readiness Reserves (HRR) and volunteer reserve personnel serving on Additional Duties Commitment (ADC) or FTRS contracts. Sponsored Reserves who provide a more cost effective solution than volunteer reserves are also included in the Army Reserve FR20. Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS), Expeditionary Forces Institute (EFI) and University Officer Cadets and Regular Reservists are excluded. |
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3. Figures for FR20 Volunteer Reserves are only available from April 2012 onwards. |
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4. It is not mandatory for Service personnel to declare their ethnicity on the Joint Personnel Administrative (JPA) system. Figures reflect the number of personnel who declared themselves as BAME on JPA. |
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5. Figures are based on personnel with a known nationality as reported on JPA. |
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6. Intake to UK Regular Forces comprises new entrants, re-entrants, direct trained entrants (including professionally qualified officers), intake to the Army from the Gurkhas and intake from the Reserves. All movements within the Regular Forces, including flows from untrained to trained strength, transfers between Services and flows from rank to officer due to promotion are excluded. |
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7. Intake to FR20 comprises new entrants, Regular to Reserve transfers, Reserve re-joiners, and Reserve personnel joining from another part of the Reserves that are not included in the FR20 target population. Intake to UK Regular Forces comprises new entrants, re-entrants, direct trained entrants (including professionally qualified officers), intake to the Army from the Gurkhas and intake from the Reserves. It excludes all movements within the Regular Forces; including flows from untrained to trained strength, transfers between Services and flows from rank to officer due to promotion. |
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