Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 information has been taken from the Department’s equality monitoring report for year ending 31 March 2014. The report included information from the central department and five executive agencies as follows:

· Highways Agency

· Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency

· Maritime & Coastguard Agency

· Vehicle Certification Agency

· Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

There were 16,373 employees of whom:

(a) 12,353 members of staff (75.44%) identified as white or white British.

(b) 393 members of staff (2.40%) identified as Asian or Asian British.

(c) 142 members of staff (0.86%) identified as Black or Black British.

(d) 164 members of staff (1.00%) identified as mixed or multiple ethnic group.

(e) 48 members of staff (0.29%) identified as other ethnicity.

N.B. the ethnicity of 3273 (19.99%) members of staff was unknown.