Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) male and (b) female.

As at 30 November 2014, the Ministry of Justice executive board comprised 4 female and 3 male executive members, and 2 female and 2 male non-executive members.

The department does not monitor the composition of its executive board separately from its general monitoring of the representation of protected characteristics across the Department’s workforce. Other than for gender, it is not possible to provide a breakdown of ethnicity or disability data for the Department’s executive board given the small numbers involved. This is standard practice and protects individual identification.

MoJ workforce diversity data is published annually, the most recent report for the 2013-14 period can be found at; https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378112/moj-diversity-data-report-2013-14_.pdf’