Ministry of Defence has 93 diversity networks including 10 for gender issues

The Ministry of Defence has 93 different diversity networks for personnel to discuss race, gender and mental health, The Telegraph can reveal. The staff networks, which are groups for civil servants and those serving in the Armed Forces to discuss issues around diversity, include seven for LGBT issues, 14 for race issues and 10 for gender issues. In comparison, the Home Office has 19 formal staff networks and the Ministry of Justice has 18, while the MoD has 20 focused on disability issues alone including the Defence Neuro Inclusivity Network, Defence Stammering Network and the Defence Epilepsy Network. Last month John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister, ordered a review into Civil Service diversity networks as a part of a drive to maintain its impartiality.