Question to the Home Office:

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

For the purposes of this answer, Senior Civil Service (SCS) Pay Band 1 has been treated as equivalent to Grade 5 and SCS Pay Band 2 and Director General have been treated as Grade 3.

At 30 June 2019, there are currently the following staff in the Home Office who have declared their ethnicity as BAME:

Data Source: Adelphi – Home Office Human Resources Record System

Period covered: As at 30 June 2019

Employee coverage: The data is based on headcount of paid, permanent Civil Servants who were current as at 30 June 2019.