Britain’s news channel
The Treasury has set out a new target that six per cent of its staff will come from black backgrounds.
It is the first time they have set a representational target for the ethnic group.
2011 census data showed that 3.3 per cent of the population in England and Wales are black, which means the target is two times the UK population.
Civil servants at the department received a note labelled “Time for Change, Black History Month 2022” that said: “for the first time in the department’s history, the Treasury introduced a new black staff representational target of 6 percent at all grades”.