Defence Equipment & Support: Equality
(asked on 18th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 40 of the Defence Equipment and Support Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, what the 16 sub-targets were; and of those, which (a) were and (b) were not met.
The status of the 16 sub-targets for DE&S KPI 4.1 (Culture and Inclusion), at the end of reporting year 2022-23, is shown in the table below. Note that since the publication of these sub-targets the nomenclature of the grade Senior Admin Specialist (SAS) has changed to Senior Technical Specialist.
Targets | Status | |
Commercial | Increase Ethnic Minority (EM) representation at Senior Admin Specialist (SAS) – Professional II (PII) to 6.5% | Not Met |
Increase female representation at Professional I (PI) – Senior Professional (SP) to 41.8% | Met | |
Corporate Services Group | Increase female representation at SP to be 35% | Not Met |
Increase EM representation to be 6% | Not Met | |
Engineering | 20% of Engineering new joiners to be female | Not Met |
Maintain female attrition 0.5% below male rate | Not Met | |
Finance & Accounting | Increase disabled representation at PI - SP to 4.2% | Not Met |
Increase EM representation at PI - SP to 8.4% | Met | |
HR | Increase EM representation to 7.5% | Met |
Maintain Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Other representation at ≥3.4% | Met | |
Integrated Logistics | Increase female representation in PII-SP to 26.5% | Met |
Increase EM representation in PII - PI to 4.9% | Not Met | |
Information Management & IT | Increase female representation at PII – SP to 30.5% | Met |
Increase in EM representation at PII – SP to 7.1% | Met | |
Project Delivery | Increase female representation at PI to 30% | Not Met |
Increase EM representation at PI to 4% | Not Met | |
DE&S uses its own grade structure and grading methodology. This utilises a broadly comparable read across to Civil Service grades, but does not confirm exact grade equivalency between DE&S and other Civil Service organisations:
DE&S Grade | Civil Service Grade |
Senior Leadership Group 3 (SLG3*) | Director General (Senior Civil Service 3) |
Senior Leadership Group 2 (SLG2*) | Director (Senior Civil Service 2) |
Senior Leadership Group 1 (SLG1*) | Deputy Director (Senior Civil Service 1) |
Senior Professional (SP) | G6 |
Professional I (PI) | G7 |
Professional II (PII) | Senior Executive Officer (SEO) |
Senior Technical/Senior Specialist I (STSI) | Higher Executive Officer (HEO) |
Senior Technical/Senior Specialist II (STSII) | Executive Officer (EO) |
Technical/Specialist I (TSI) | Administrative Officer (AO) |
Technical/Specialist II (TSII) | Administrative Assistant (AA) |