Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many members of her Department's executive board are disabled.

As at 31 March 2014, there were (a) 9 male and (b) 5 female members of the Home Office Supervisory Board.

As at 31 March 2014, the members of the Home Office Supervisory Board were (a) 36% white British and (b) 0% from any other ethnic background.

The remaining 64% of Home Office Supervisory Board members have not declared their ethnicity.

As at 31 March 2014, fewer than 5 Home Office Supervisory Board members declared a disability.

Data on ethnicity and disability has been reported and anonymised in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act and in line with the Code of Practice for the UK Statistics Authority.

The racial or ethnic identity with which an individual chooses to identify is not self-evident. Information about the racial or ethnic background of an individual is sensitive personal data as defined by section 2 of the Data Protection Act 1998. It would be inappropriate to disclose this information unless the individual concerned had given explicit consent or had taken steps to put the information in the public domain.