Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within her Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The table below shows the average hourly rate of pay for employees who have declared their ethnicity in core-Defra at each grade identified as (a) white and (b) from a black, Asian, or other minority ethnic group (BAME).
Grade | (a) White | (b) BAME |
AA | - | - |
AO | £11.79 | £12.29 |
EO | £13.93 | £15.15 |
HEO | £16.90 | £17.56 |
Faststream | £15.30 | £15.52 |
SEO | £20.48 | £20.99 |
Grade 7 | £27.58 | £28.14 |
Grade6 | £33.34 | - |
SCS | £41.36 | - |
Data has not been provided where there are fewer than 5 employees in a group.
This includes employees at AA, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £9.09; Grade 6, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £33.42; and at SCS, where the average hourly rate of pay across all employees is £43.33.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
The table below shows the number and proportion of core Defra employees in each ethnicity category as at 28 February 2015. This includes people who have declared their ethnicity status only.
Ethnicity | White | Asian | Black | Mixed | Other | Total |
No. of staff | 1237 | 92 | 118 | 24 | 7 | 1478 |
% | 83.7% | 6.2% | 8.0% | 1.6% | 0.5% | 100% |
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in her Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
Information on requests received and granted for flexible working in core Defra is not held centrally and could be provided only by incurring disproportionate cost.