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(asked on 17th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
This question was answered on 19th March 2015
The table below shows the number and proportion of core Defra employees in each ethnicity category as at 28 February 2015. This includes people who have declared their ethnicity status only.
Ethnicity | White | Asian | Black | Mixed | Other | Total |
No. of staff | 1237 | 92 | 118 | 24 | 7 | 1478 |
% | 83.7% | 6.2% | 8.0% | 1.6% | 0.5% | 100% |