Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Ethnic Groups

(asked on 18th July 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Seema Malhotra Portrait
Seema Malhotra
(Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many BAME staff are employed at (a) grade 7, (b) grade 5 and (c) grade 3 in his Department.

Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 2nd August 2019

As at 30 June, the number of BAME staff employed in the department for the grades requested is shown in the table below:

BAME Staff

SCS 2 (Grade 3)

Less than 5

SCS 1 (Grade 5)

13

Grade 7

72

As ethnic minority staff remain underrepresented at senior levels, the Civil Service set ambitious targets in June 2018 to increase the flow of ethnic minority civil servants into the SCS. Defra is committed to this activity.

Summary representation rates of ethnic minority SCS by department are published on the Civil Service diversity dashboard as at December 2018. At that time, Defra had 7.1% BAME SCS representation.

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