Claim: Less than 4% of board members in FTSE 150 companies are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
Fact-check: Ethnic diversity on company boards - Full Fact
Verdict: about 5% of directors on ftse 150 boards which are headquartered or mainly operational in the uk, western europe, the us, or australia are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. only 1.6% are british too, compared to about 13% of the uk population as a whole.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2016-12-07T00:00:00