Race monitoring
The armed forces are to start monitoring ethnic origins of personnel this week and to circulate a race relations code of practice. Questionnaires will be sent first to the RAF, then to the Royal Navy and the Army. People from ethnic minorities make 1 per cent of those joining up.
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