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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 05 Mar 2020
International Women’s Day

"It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss), who made a passionate speech. This is the first time I have closed a debate, and it is an honour to close this debate in particular, because women and the issue of women’s inequality have shaped …..."
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Written Question
Department for International Trade: Islam
Monday 28th October 2019

Asked by: Naz Shah (Labour - Bradford West)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff in her Department reported their religion as Islam in the latest period for which figures are available; what the reported ethnicity of those staff was; and how many of those staff were employed at each grade.

Answered by Conor Burns

There are 76 members of staff in the Department for International Trade (including UK Export Finance (UKEF) as at 30 September 2019 who have self-reported their religion as Muslim on departmental systems.

The ethnicity and grades of those 76 people are shown below.

Ethnicity

Headcount

Asian

52

Any other ethnic group

10

Mixed

7

Black

Less than 5

Not Reported

Less than 5

Prefer not to say

Less than 5

White

Less than 5

Grade

Headcount

AA/AO

Less than 5

EO

18

HEO/SEO

36

G6/7

18

SCS

Less than 5

The tables above include civil servants working in the UK and paid via the DIT or UKEF payroll and UK based civil servants working overseas and paid via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office payroll and working on DIT objectives.

Where the number of people in any category is too small to be reported it has been redacted in order to prevent identification of individual and their protected characteristics.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 17 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"As we begin to understand the gender pay gap, does the Minister agree that, because the race pay gap is bigger than the gender pay gap, we should start to compel companies to publish their figures on that?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Apr 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"When across 45% of firms the discrepancy in pay increase is in favour of men this year, it is now clear that the Government’ s policy of asking companies simply to report on the gender pay gap is not enough. I welcome the Minister’s response to the question about encouraging …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"The primary victims of religiously motivated attacks are women, but how can the Government reassure Muslim women that they are serious about tackling Islamophobia when they choose to ignore and shut down the voices of the British Muslims in their own party who are calling for an independent inquiry into …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 07 Feb 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Can the Minister explain how a young person under the age of 19 from a low-income family, who works 35 hours a week on the minimum wage earning £3.50 an hour on an apprenticeship scheme—less than £122.50 a week—and who is barely able to pay for their own meals, travel, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Although I welcome the Government’s efforts to reduce the gender pay gap, they pledged in 2017 to tackle racial pay disparities. In the same year, Baroness McGregor-Smith found that greater workplace diversity could boost Britain’s economy by £24 billion a year. When do the Government plan to act on their …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 15 Nov 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"It is disappointing that the Government rejected the Women and Equalities Committee recommendation of a cross-departmental race equality strategy. Can the Minister at least commit to making the reporting of a race pay gap compulsory, in line with the gender pay gap?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Many colleagues have highlighted their concern about take-up being just over 1% and I must push the Government further. Will the Minister spell out what exactly this Government will do to ensure that taking up the scheme is a real option for parents?..."
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