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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Henry Saker-Clark

UK firms make progress on diversity targets but ‘significant improvement’ needed

UK companies being ‘quieter’ about diversity targets amid US pressure (Alamy/PA) -

The proportion of ethnic minority leaders at the UK’s largest companies has increased over the past year, but “significant further improvement” is needed to meet targets by next year, according to a Government-backed review.

The latest report from the Parker Review also found that black representation “disappointingly” declined at board and senior management levels last year.

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