Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many and what proportion of employees in his 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.

The Scotland Office does not employ staff, all staff that join the department do so on loan or secondment from other government bodies, which remain the employer. The employers hold all information about ethnicity.