Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many and what proportion of applications for the Upskill in Cyber programme in 2023 were from people from ethnic minority backgrounds.

The Department launched the Upskill in Cyber Programme in May 2023. As of 23 June, three days before closing to new applicants, the programme had received 3750 applications, compared to the previous year's total of 1,876. 70% of these applications were from people from ethnic minority backgrounds.