Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends to reply to the letter of 8 April 2016 on the death of Claire Martin in Italy from the hon. Member for Ashfield.
Answered by David Lidington
I responded to the letter from the hon. Member for Ashfield on the 18th May 2016.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Members for Ashfield and Leeds Central dated 16 June 2015.
Answered by David Lidington
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) responded to a joint letter from the hon. Member for Ashfield (Gloria De Piero) and the right hon. Member for Leeds Central, Yorkshire and Humberside (Hilary Benn) about Foreign and Commonwealth Office flag policy on 22 July 2015.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within his Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
Our pay scales at all grades apply equally to all staff.
A number of factors impact on an individual officers hourly rate of pay including length of service, time in grade, and previous civil service employment.
The average hourly pay of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) employees at each grade identified as a) White or White British and b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group is:
Grade White or White British Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group
A1 (AA=) £9.82 £9.80
A2 (AO=) £11.21 £11.22
B3 (EO=) £13.31 £13.16
C4 (HEO=) £15.47 £15.05
C5 (SEO=) £19.22 £18.76
D6 (G7=) £24.95 £25.64
D7 (G6=) £30.98 £30.85
SCS1 £36.18 £34.37
SCS2 £46.85 £46.28
SCS3 £67.51
This is taken from data at 31 December 2014 and only includes staff salaries where a declaration of ethnicity has been made.
More details on FCO Diversity and Equality can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-and-equality-report-2014
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 Tobias Ellwood
Of the Foreign and Commonwealth’s 4,560 UK employees, 3,283 (71.9%) have disclosed their ethnic origin.
Of these 3,283 staff, the following proportion have identified their ethnicity on the basis set out:
a) White – 2,869 (87%)
b) Asian or Asian British – 187 (6%)
c) Black or Black British – 110 (3%)
d) Mixed or multiple ethnic group – 75 (2%)
e) Ethnicity other than the above – 42 (1%)
These figures do not include the FCO’s 9,300 locally employed staff in our 268 overseas missions.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) supports flexible working for all its employees and all FCO staff can ask to work flexibly on an ad hoc basis or submit a formal application for a regular change to their working pattern subject to business needs. Staff are able to appeal if a formal request to work flexibly is refused. The FCO does not centrally record requests for flexible working and therefore does not hold data on number of applications made.
Line managers are responsible for recording and monitoring working patterns for their teams. In 2013 we also introduced a new form into our Management Information system in which we encourage staff to voluntarily record details so that we can provide more accurate management information on flexible working patterns. Based on information recorded on our HR database on 31 October 2014, including the voluntary declarations that have been made, the gender breakdown of the different types of current flexible working are as follows:
Flexible Working Type Female Male Total
Compressed Hours 20 9 29
Flexi-time 22 19 41
Job share 17 1 18
Part time/reduced hours 154 15 169
Remote Working 87 63 150
Total 300 107 407
Total as a % of Workforce 15% 4% 9%
(These figures include all FCO civil servants based in the UK and overseas, They do not include staff from FCO Services, (an Executive Agency and Trading Fund of the FCO) or locally engaged staff employed overseas).
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many civil servants employed through his Department's graduate fast track scheme between 1 June 2004 and 1 June 2014 were educated at (a) private and (b) state schools.
Answered by Hugh Robertson
This information is not held centrally. It could only be collected at disproportionate cost.