Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.

The Department publishes Workforce Equality Data which consists of information about disciplinary cases combined together with grievance cases, by ethnicity. This information is presented in the attached table with the proportion of cases where ethnicity has not been declared.

Detailed information on disciplinary cases alone is not held for this full period, as penalties which may have been imposed would have been ‘spent'.

However, since 1 April 2013 detailed information is available and for the financial year 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 54% of staff who were subject to formal disciplinary proceedings were white British and 9% were of undeclared ethnicity.

More information for the years 2012 to 2014 is available on the .GOV website on the links below:

2012 - www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-health-workforce-information-2012

2013 - www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-equality-information-department-of-health

2014 - www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-equality-information-2014