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Written Question
Staff
Tuesday 24th March 2015

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of employees in his 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 Claire Perry

The information has been taken from the Department’s equality monitoring report for year ending 31 March 2014. The report included information from the central department and five executive agencies as follows:

· Highways Agency

· Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency

· Maritime & Coastguard Agency

· Vehicle Certification Agency

· Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency


There were 16,373 employees of whom:

(a) 12,353 members of staff (75.44%) identified as white or white British.

(b) 393 members of staff (2.40%) identified as Asian or Asian British.

(c) 142 members of staff (0.86%) identified as Black or Black British.

(d) 164 members of staff (1.00%) identified as mixed or multiple ethnic group.

(e) 48 members of staff (0.29%) identified as other ethnicity.

N.B. the ethnicity of 3273 (19.99%) members of staff was unknown.

Written Question
Flexible Working
Wednesday 26th November 2014

Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.

Answered by Claire Perry

The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2012
West Coast Main Line

"The Campaign for Better Transport has been quoted today as saying that operational changes in the Department have not been focused on passengers but have been all about the bottom line. Does it not have a point?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Sep 2012
Rail Fares

"Regional railways are very important for former mining towns such as the one I represent. Many of my constituents travel into Nottingham for work. It would be terrible, and very short-sighted, if fares were allowed to rise to such a level that people thought it simply was not worth being …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"I, too, represent a semi-rural constituency, where bus services, and school buses in particular, are becoming a real issue. Just last week, a mum contacted me about the removal of the school bus in Bagthorpe. Getting children to school is not a luxury; it is a necessity. Should not Ministers …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 Jan 2012
Oral Answers to Questions

"On protecting women’s income, what safeguards are in place to ensure that charging people to use the Child Support Agency does not push mums who cannot afford to pay into further hardship?..."
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