HC Deb 06 February 1990 vol 166 c598W
48. Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what action has been taken in response to the report by Peat Marwick McLintock on recruitment of ethnic minorities into the armed services.

61. Mr. John Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what action has been taken in response to the report by Peat Marwick McLintock on recuitment of ethnic minorities into the armed services.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

I refer the hon. Members to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding (Mr. Davies) on 23 January 1990 at col.588–89.

91. Mr. Ashton

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many recruits to the armed forces in 1989 year were of Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin; and how many service personnel of similar background left.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The provisional results of the survey of ethnic origins of applicants to the armed forces during the financial year 1988–89, the latest period for which figures are available, indicate that 121 recruits classified themselves as Caribbean, 26 as African and 64 as Asian. Figures for those who left the armed forces are not available.