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.