Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of senior civil servants of his Department are (a) men, (b) women, (c) disabled, (d) from working-class backgrounds and (e) from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.
The information requested that is held centrally is set out in the following table:
Category | Proportion of Senior Civil Servant Staff |
Men | 57% |
Women | 43% |
Disabled | 5% |
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic | 6% |
Information is not held centrally on the social economic backgrounds of senior civil servants.