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The government may be celebrating success at increasing overall employment, but recent statistics show there are more black people out of work now than a year ago. The latest Office for National Statistics report shows there has been a 20.2 per cent rise in the number of people from African and African Caribbean backgrounds who are now out of work. Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, the UK's leading independent race equality think tank, has criticised the government for not doing more to resolve this issue. In this extract he speaks to Mark Dean about why the figures for multicultural employment are so low.