Updated figures from Business In The Community’s 2014 report Race at the Top shows that despite black people making up more than 3% of the population in England & Wales there has been little success over the past decade in addressing lack of diverse representation in senior leadership roles. Just 1.5% of senior private sector roles are held by black people a 0.1% increase since 2014. Public sector leadership remains static at 1% and 62% of charity boards are all-white. Just 1% of the police force identifies as black African or black Caribbean, 1% of journalists, senior civil servants, judges and academics are black, and no appeal court judges are black. However, one area where representation has improved is in politics where there are currently 65 MPs in the UK who are black, Asian or minority ethnicities (BAME), rising from 27 in 2010.
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