Department for International Trade: Senior Civil Servants
(asked on 24th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, 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 proportion of senior civil servants working in the Department for International Trade and the UK Export Finance in the categories requested is shown in the table below.
Category | Proportion* |
Men | 63.5% |
Women | 36.5% |
Disabled | 4.7% |
from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds | 3.7% |
* as at 12 January 2017
This data is based on the self-declared information of the senior civil servants, and therefore may not be truly representative.
Data on the social background of our senior civil servants is not held centrally. To capture and analyse this would incur disproportionate costs.