Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate he has made of the number of Black and ethnic minority staff employed in his Department.
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) overall and managerial Ethnicity Data as at 30 June 2021:
Ethnicity declaration | DWP | Managers | ||
Ethnic Minority | 14,168 | 15.3% | 1,015 | 7.1% |
White | 68,179 | 73.6% | 12,170 | 84.7% |
Prefer not to say | 4,327 | 4.7% | 567 | 3.9% |
unknown | 6,016 | 6.5% | 616 | 4.3% |
Total DWP staff | 92,690 |
| 14,368 |
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To further support ethnic minority career progression, we continue to actively promote Civil Service development opportunities, which include:
We are also building our internal pipeline through internal development schemes such as the Aspire Programme, which specifically targets development of Black and Ethnic minority staff.
We have built a number of improvements into our recruitment and selection including:
These actions are supporting DWP commitment to the Civil Service ambition of becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer, by improving representation of ethnic minority colleagues across all levels.