Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.

As of February 2015, 31 employees in my Department, equal to 29.2% of staff, were recorded as white or white British; 2 employees, equal to 1.9% of staff, were recorded as black, Asian or from other minority ethnic groups. These figures are based on those staff that chose to declare their ethnic origin; we do not hold information on the remaining 73 employees.