Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
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) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage are (i) white British and (ii) from an ethnic minority background.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
No member of staff directly employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth office in the UK or on a diplomatic posting overseas is paid less than the Living Wage. Staff employed locally at our missions overseas are done so in full compliance with local employment law. We are aware that there are currently 96 contracted staff who are working for the FCO Facilities Management (FM) provider whose hourly rate is less than the levels recommended by the Living Wage campaign. We do not hold any information on the proportion of staff this represents for our FM provider nor do we hold any information on the ethnic or gender background of those contracted staff. We do not hold information on the earnings of any other contracted staff.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
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) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department are paid less than the Living Wage.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
No member of staff directly employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth office in the UK or on a diplomatic posting overseas is paid less than the Living Wage. Staff employed locally at our missions overseas are done so in full compliance with local employment law. We are aware that there are currently 96 contracted staff who are working for the FCO Facilities Management (FM) provider whose hourly rate is less than the levels recommended by the Living Wage campaign. We do not hold any information on the proportion of staff this represents for our FM provider nor do we hold any information on the ethnic or gender background of those contracted staff. We do not hold information on the earnings of any other contracted staff.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
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) his Department's staff and (b) staff working for companies contracted by his Department who are paid less than the Living Wage are (i) women and (ii) men.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
No member of staff directly employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth office in the UK or on a diplomatic posting overseas is paid less than the Living Wage. Staff employed locally at our missions overseas are done so in full compliance with local employment law. We are aware that there are currently 96 contracted staff who are working for the FCO Facilities Management (FM) provider whose hourly rate is less than the levels recommended by the Living Wage campaign. We do not hold any information on the proportion of staff this represents for our FM provider nor do we hold any information on the ethnic or gender background of those contracted staff. We do not hold information on the earnings of any other contracted staff.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) male and (b) female.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Management Board consists of 9 executive and 2 non-executive members. The gender breakdown is a) 5 male and 4 female executive board members and b)1 male and 1 female non-executive board members. Due to the small number of Board members, ethnicity information is classed as “sensitive personal data” under section 2(e) of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of his Department's executive board are disabled.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
Due to the small number of FCO Management Board members, we are unable to release disability information as this is classed as “sensitive personal data” under section 2(e) of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic background.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Management Board consists of 9 executive and 2 non-executive members. The gender breakdown is a) 5 male and 4 female executive board members and b)1 male and 1 female non-executive board members. Due to the small number of Board members, ethnicity information is classed as “sensitive personal data” under section 2(e) of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help end the practice of breast-ironing in Western, Eastern and Central African countries.
Answered by James Duddridge
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 27 November 2014 by my right honourable Friend the member for New Forest West (Desmond Swayne MP), the Minister of State for International Development (PQ215395).