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<p>Defence is a modern and inclusive employer with people at its core. It offers supportive policies that enable everyone, irrespective of background, to have a rewarding and varied career.</p><p> </p><p>The Armed Forces are committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best talent from the broadest diversity of skills and background, to reflect the society we serve. This includes undertaking a wide range of activities to increase the number of ethnic minority recruits into the Armed Forces, through better understanding and greater engagement with ethnic minority communities, reviewing recruitment processes and better targeted marketing and communications towards potential ethnic minority applicants.</p><p> </p><p>The Army does not spend money on specifically targeting ethnic minorities within their recruitment programmes, but they are considering it for future programmes to ensure they meet their levels of ambition for diverse recruitment. At present, Army recruitment programmes concentrate on mass attraction and utilise diverse representation aimed at appealing to all potential joiners, including ethnic minorities.</p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to attribute a cost to Royal Navy spend on campaigns aimed at diversifying their recruitment as Royal Navy recruitment is inclusive by design and does not specifically target diversity.</p><p> </p><p>Royal Air Force (RAF) recruitment routinely extends an element of its marketing budget to reach targeted audiences within ethnic minority communities across all media platforms, such as community TV, radio, print, social media etc. The cost of this for each year since 2019 is detailed in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>RAF spend by Financial Year (FY) on recruitment activity targeted at ethnic minority communities</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2019-20</p></td><td><p>£370,920.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2020-21</p></td><td><p>£154,665.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2021-22</p></td><td><p>£921,110.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY2022-23</p></td><td><p>£312,964.08</p></td></tr></tbody></table> |