Just 1% of directors and senior managers in UK construction are black, according to official figures.
While 94.9% of senior figures in the industry are white, only 1.8% are of Indian ethnicity and just 0.4% are of Pakistani ethnicity.
The number of directors and senior managers from Chinese and Bangladeshi groups were so small that they registered as 0% in the Office for National Statistics employment data, highlighted by Construction Products Association (CPA) economics director Noble Francis.
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