Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.
The data in the table relates to staff in core Defra only.
Financial year | Percentage of staff who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings who have not declared their ethnicity | Percentage of staff who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings who have declared themselves to be white British |
2009-10 | No dismissals | No dismissals |
2010-11 | No dismissals | No dismissals |
2011-12 | 100% | 0% |
2012-13 | No dismissals | No dismissals |
2013-14 | No dismissals | No dismissals |
Employees declare their ethnicity and national identity on a voluntary basis.