Asian Britons 'virtually unrepresented' in senior Civil Service within FTSE 100 companies

According to a study by the former head of the equalities watchdog Trevor Phillips, Asian Britons are 'virtually unrepresented' in the senior Civil Service within FTSE 100 companies at the top of the Whitehall.

The study said that the leadership in Civil Service is less ethnically diverse with a factor of more than three to one, reports the Independent.

The report also found that there was virtually no representation of Asian, Black or Chinese Briton employees in the top four grades within the Civil Service.

Ethnic minorities form a percentage of 3.7 among the top level employees of Civil Service compared to an 8.3 percent of senior business roles in FTSE 100 companies.

The report revealed that the ethnic diversity in local authority leadership was extremely low and almost defies analysis.

Only six people out of 268 were non-whites in leadership roles in the most significant public bodies outside government and local authorities like Bank of England, NHS England and the BBC.