Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

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

My current Departmental Board is made up of nine executive members & one non-executive member. Of the nine executive members eight are male and the remaining one is female. The one non-executive member is female.

My Department does not keep ethnic background or disability information for its executive board members who are all civil servants. However, I can inform you that the Department’s non-executive board member has indicated ‘white’ as their ethnicity.