Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of senior civil servants of her Department are (a) men, (b) women, (c) disabled, (d) from working-class backgrounds and (e) from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Of the 42 members of the SCS in DCMS, the percentage in the categories set out below, as of 1^st February 2017, is:

a) Male: 43%

b) Female: 57%

c) Disabled: -*

d) From a working class background: this information is not recorded

e) BAME: -*

* This percentage is suppressed as it represents a group of fewer than 5 employees. Ethnicity and disability data is collected on a self declaratory basis.