Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at Her Majesty's Treasury at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton
The Annual Report and Accounts 19/20 includes the percentage of Senior Civil Servants from an ethnic minority background.
The Annual Report and Accounts 19/20 shows that the percentage of SCS that are from minority ethnic backgrounds is 9.6% (Core Treasury grade diversity as at 31 March 2020 table on page 98). It also shows that the SCS total FTE is 129.9 (Core Treasury – staff composition at 31 March 2020 FTE table on page 98). Using these numbers, it can be calculated that the number of SCS from this cohort is 12.4 FTE
We cannot provide a breakdown of ethnicity by grade due to the small number of Directors and Director Generals. To do so would risk people being identifiable.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at UK Export Finance at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
UK Export Finance (UKEF) is the most ethnically diverse department in the civil service, with 30.7% of staff from BAME backgrounds.
The numbers of BAME civil servants in UK Export Finance at senior civil service (SCS) grades is attached.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Department for International Trade at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
The number of Department for International Trade (DIT) staff at Senior Civil Servant (SCS) grade (excluding UK Export Finance) who have self-reported as BAME on departmental systems is 18. Of these, 14 are SCS1 grade. To protect anonymity, where identifiable characteristics are 5 or lower these are redacted, so for the remaining 4 individuals (18 total BAME staff minus 14 SCS1 grade) their SCS grades are undisclosed.
The reference date for this data is 30th September 2020. This figure only includes civil servants employed by DIT, working in the UK and on DIT payroll and UK based civil servants working overseas paid via FCDO payroll who are currently engaged in delivering DIT objectives. It is also dependent on individuals self-reporting as BAME on our HR systems. It does not include staff on loan to DIT from other government departments but who remain on their home departments payroll, contractors, military staff, people on secondment from other organisations, locally employed staff working overseas, those who are on loan or secondment out of DIT, on unpaid special leave or career break.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Department for Health and Social Care at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Lord Bethell
In total, there are 10 people who have declared themselves as black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) senior civil servants (SCS) in the Department. The following table shows the breakdown split by the different SCS grades as requested and is accurate as of 30 September 2020.
The ethnicity data provided in the table is based on self-declaration and the declaration rate for ethnicity at SCS level is 62%. In addition, the data below excludes civil servants loaned out to other Government departments, civil servants who are currently on loan to the Department, and contractors.
Grade | BAME | Total |
SCS 1 | 9 | 145 |
SCS 2 | 1 | 45 |
SCS 3 | 0 | 6 |
SCS 4 | 0 | 1 |
Grand Total | 10 | 197 |
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Home Office at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic Senior Civil Service Staff | |
Grade | Headcount |
SCS PB1 | 18 |
SCS PB2 & PB3 | 3 |
Data Source: Adelphi - Home Office Human Resources Record System. | |||
Period Covered: Figures are as at 31st August 2020 | |||
Organisational Coverage: Home Office | |||
Employee Coverage: In line with Cabinet Office guidelines on diversity and equality reporting, the data is based on headcount of current paid permanent civil servants. The data includes employees in SCS grade who have declared their ethnicity as Minority Ethnic. | |||
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many BAME civil servants there are at the Department for Work and Pensions at (1) SCS1, (2) SCS2, (3) SCS3, and (4) SCS4, grade.
Answered by Baroness Stedman-Scott
All of our employees are positively encouraged to record their diversity status, although any such declaration is on a voluntary basis. Therefore, we do not hold an exhaustive record of all Departmental employee ethnic origin.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on foster carers of their plans to extend the new IR35 rules to the private sector from April 2020.
Answered by Earl of Courtown - Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard (HM Household) (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Lords)
The reforms to how the off-payroll working rules are administered have already been in place in the public sector, including local authorities, since 2017. In the first 12 months, these reforms brought in an additional £550 million in Income Tax and NICs, which otherwise would have gone unpaid. Independent research into the public sector reforms found that most public bodies did not experience any change in their ability to fill vacancies, or the rates they pay following the reforms.
Following consultation, the Government announced at Budget 2018 that it will extend this reform to all medium and large organisations. On 11 July 2019 HMRC published a Tax Information and Impact Note setting out the impact on individuals, households and families of the reform in the private sector.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to extend to the Defence Medical Services the same changes to pension tax rules that they are offering to senior consultants within the National Health Service.
Answered by Baroness Goldie
The Department for Health and Social Care are intending to publish a second consultation concerning an amendment to the NHS pension scheme for senior clinicians shortly. Once published the Ministry of Defence (MOD) will consider these proposals and their effect on MOD and Service personnel, including those in the Defence Medical Services.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the preparedness of the financial services industry to solve the issue of LIBOR-linked loan contracts before 2021.
Answered by Lord Young of Cookham
The Government is supporting a market – led transition away from LIBOR by end-2021.
UK financial services regulators have said that they will be expecting banks to show that they have eliminated dependency on LIBOR in their lending businesses, have suitable plans to move to non-LIBOR products in new lending well before end-2021, and to explain changes to affected customers.
Asked by: Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many non-disclosure agreements have been part of settlement agreements issued by the NHS in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
Information on how many non-disclosure agreements have been part of settlement agreements issued by the National Health Service in each of the last five years is not held centrally.