Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to tackle levels of unemployment among the BAME community.

The Government is committed to levelling up skills and opportunity across the country. Using data from the Race Disparity Audit, first published in October 2017, and the Department for Work and Pensions own analysis we are helping those underrepresented in the labour market. Since 2010, 1,223,000 more people from ethnic minority backgrounds are in employment - that’s a 45 per cent increase in the number of ethnic minority people employed.