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.
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 |
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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 ‘