Department for International Trade: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 18th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many BAME staff are employed at (a) grade 7, (b) grade 5 and (c) grade 3 in his Department.
The following table shows the number of staff in the Department for International Trade (DIT) (including UK Export Finance) who have self-reported as BAME on departmental systems, as at 30 June 2019.
Grade | Number of staff who have self-reported as BAME (30 June 2019) |
Grade 7 | 81 |
Grade 5 (SCS1) | 15 |
Grade 3 (SCS2) | Fewer than 5 |
As ethnic minority staff remain underrepresented at senior levels across the Civil Service, ambitious targets were set in June 2018 to increase the flow of ethnic minority civil servants into the SCS. By 2025, we aim for 13.2% of new SCS starters to be from an ethnic minority background across the Civil Service.
In DIT, 24% of new SCS starters since April 2017 are BAME.