Originally posted by d000hg
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Currently more than 6% MPs in the House of Commons and Members of the House of Lords are from an ethnic minority background1. The latest available estimate from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Annual Population Survey 2015 indicates that 13% of the UK population are from ethnic minority background.
http://researchbriefings.files.parli...56/SN01156.pdf
Not bad considering there is a very low turnover of MPs many have been in parliament for decades.
of course if you look back to 2001 the percentage of ethnic minorities was 8%
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/...nic-minorities
So it looks like the figures are bad but in reality the population has changed dramatically.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ic-mps-commons
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