The data measures the percentage of people from each ethnic group who work in a particular industry or sector in the UK. It includes both employed and self-employed people. To paint a contemporary picture of BME people’s experiences of racism at work, the TUC commissioned Number Cruncher Politics to carry out polling on experiences of Di Stasio, V., and Heath, A., (2019), ‘Are employers in Britain discriminating against ethnic minorities?’, GEMM Project, available at: http://csi.nuff.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Are-employers-in-Britain-discriminating-against-ethnic-minorities_final.pdf ↩ Aston University, Coventry University and Manchester Metropolitan University are among the 33 business schools across the UK that have been awarded the Small Business Charter in recognition of their ongoing work to support small businesses, local economies and student entrepreneurship. ↩

Despite the wider, societal challenges, great strides have been made in employers’ attitudes to health at work. Dame Carol commended organisations for the level of attention they are now giving to mental health conditions at work, in particular.Incidents of racism and discrimination have a clear negative impact on BME workers. Around a third reported that the most recent incident left them feeling less confident at work (35 per cent), and a similar proportion said it made them feel embarrassed (34 per cent) and had a negative impact on their mental health (31 per cent). Ethnicity Facts and Figures, (2021) Employment by ethnicity and gender. Covers England, Scotland and Wales in the year 2019. Source: Annual population survey. Available at: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/work-pay-and-benefits/employment/employment/latest#by-ethnicity ↩ The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute, (2019), ‘Global Entrepreneurship Index’. Available at: https://thegedi.org/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-index/ ↩

To support employers undertaking this exercise, the Commission recommends that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is tasked with producing guidance for employers to draw on. NHS pay, recruitment and progression ONS (2020) Ethnicity Pay Gaps. Release date 12 October 2020. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/ethnicitypaygapsingreatbritain/2019 ↩ Age is another important factor, with employment rate differences between the 16 to 24 and 25 to 49 age groups largest in the Indian ethnic group (38% and 84%) and smallest in the White British group (58% and 86%). [footnote 15] This difference is likely to be because young people from the Indian ethnic group are also among the most likely to go on to further education. [footnote 16]The Commission recommends that this review is chaired by an expert with close knowledge of the health care system and CQC internal processes, ideally a former inspector or inspector of an alternative inspection body. The review team should work closely with the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard team and the disciplinary bodies of the medical professionals to ensure that the views of these bodies feed into this work. Enterprise Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Dashboard. SCS representation by department and ethnicity. Data for 2019. Available at: https://public.tableau.com/profile/cabinet.office.diversity.and.inclusion#!/vizhome/CivilServiceDiversityandInclusiondashboard/Introduction ↩