Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 9 June 2020.
Matthew Offord
Conservative, Hendon
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel there are in (a) the Royal Navy, (b) the army and (c) the Royal Air Force, by ethnicity.
Johnny Mercer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (jointly with the Ministry of Defence)
The number of Service personnel, by service and ethnicity, is published in the Biannual Diversity Statistics. The information as of 1 October 2019 can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2019
This publication will be updated with data as of 1 April 2020 on 25 June 2020.
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