Armed Forces: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 1st July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to support the work of the British Army's BAME network.


Answered by
Baroness Goldie Portrait
Baroness Goldie
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

The Army's Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network was launched in November 2017 and is supported in several ways. These include an appointed Race Champion - Lieutenant General Tyrone Urch - who represents their views and experiences at Army Board level; Race Champion membership of Business in the Community which involves networking and a BAME mentoring initiative; membership of the Army Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Working Group, and Conferences, mentoring schemes, events, including virtual events, and publicity about the BAME Network in both internal Army communications and external media. Army D&I policy and briefings also highlight the BAME Network and both personnel and the Chain of Command are made aware as to how concerns and issues raised by the network are fed into policy.

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