Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Carers
(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many staff in his Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
The Department’s annual People Survey includes two questions on caring responsibilities and responses to these questions can be used to help determine the number of officials with caring responsibilities. This information is offered on an entirely voluntary basis and as such only accounts for those officials that elected to complete the survey questions concerned. The number of staff who identified themselves as having caring and/or childcare responsibilities in each of the last five years is included in the table below:
Survey Year | People Survey Response Rate | Number with caring responsibilities | Total number who answered the caring question | Proportion with caring responsibilities | Number with childcare responsibilities | Total number who answered the childcare question | Proportion with childcare responsibilities |
2015 | 82% | 280 | 1273 | 22% | 483 | 1277 | 38% |
2016 | 82% | 215 | 1071 | 20% | 387 | 1077 | 36% |
2017 | 90% | 241 | 1270 | 19% | 427 | 1269 | 34% |
2018 | 94% | 278 | 1683 | 17% | 492 | 1698 | 29% |
2019 | 97% | 435 | 1973 | 22% | 610 | 2017 | 30% |
It is worth pointing out that this information is not considered to be an official workforce statistic, and this is also only representative of those who completed the people survey in each year.