Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within his Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.

Our pay scales at all grades apply equally to all staff.

A number of factors impact on an individual officers hourly rate of pay including length of service, time in grade, and previous civil service employment.

The average hourly pay of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) employees at each grade identified as a) White or White British and b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group is:

Grade White or White British Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group
A1 (AA=) £9.82 £9.80
A2 (AO=) £11.21 £11.22
B3 (EO=) £13.31 £13.16
C4 (HEO=) £15.47 £15.05
C5 (SEO=) £19.22 £18.76
D6 (G7=) £24.95 £25.64
D7 (G6=) £30.98 £30.85
SCS1 £36.18 £34.37
SCS2 £46.85 £46.28
SCS3 £67.51

This is taken from data at 31 December 2014 and only includes staff salaries where a declaration of ethnicity has been made.

More details on FCO Diversity and Equality can be found here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-and-equality-report-2014