Competition and Markets Authority: Senior Civil Servants

(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many staff at the Competition and Markets Authority hold senior civil service roles at grade five or above, broken down by protected characteristics.


Answered by
Paul Scully Portrait
Paul Scully
This question was answered on 24th February 2021

The number of CMA staff that hold Senior Civil Servants positions (grade five or above) as at 19 February 2021 is as follows. This has been broken down by protected characteristic1:

Age

Count

Under 34

3

35 - 44

53

45 - 54

45

55+

12

Disability

Count

Disabled

3

Not Disabled

92

Prefer not to say

3

Not Reportable2

17

Ethnicity

Count

BAME

3

Non-BAME

96

Prefer not to say

3

Not Reportable2

15

Gender

Count

Female

52

Male

62

Marital Status

Count

Married / Civil Partnership

66

Other Marital Status

33

Not Reportable2

15

Religious Belief

Count

Declared Religion or Belief

39

No Religion or Belief

54

Prefer not to say

6

Not Reportable2

15

Sexual Orientation

Count

LGBTQ+

5

Straight / Heterosexual

93

Prefer not to say

6

Not Reportable2

10

It should be noted that CMA staff of all contract types have been included in the tables listed above. This includes permanent staff, fixed-term contracts and those on loan from other government departments.

1 The CMA does not currently report on gender reassignment or pregnancy and maternity protected characteristics, as defined under the Equality Act (2020), due to the small number of staff.

2 Not Reportable refers to staff that have not disclosed information for a given diversity characteristic.

3 For groups with less than 5 staff under a given protected characteristic, these groups have been combined with larger groups and / or recorded as ‘

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