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Olympic Games: Employment

Answer

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is committed to an open and transparent procurement process and seeks to ensure that inclusivity underpins all its work. It promotes equality and inclusion both within the organisation and through its supply chains. The ODA does not collect data on women, black, Asian or minority-ethnic (BAME) or disabled-led businesses. Information about the ownership of businesses is provided to the ODA by its contractors through self-evaluation and on a voluntary basis; therefore some suppliers have chosen not to disclose this information or have chosen not to respond to date. The table provides ownership details for the ODA's current suppliers:

Business Ownership
Ownership Gender	Equal male and female ownership	45
	Female majority ownership	52
	Male majority ownership	298
	Not known/undisclosed	668
Disabled Ownership	Equal disabled and non-disabled	3
	Non-disabled majority ownership	384
	Disabled majority ownership	12
	Not known/undisclosed	664
Ownership Ethnicity	White majority ownership	379
	Black, Asian or Minority Ethnicity	23
	Equal white majority ownership and black, Asian and minority ethnic	8
	Not known/undisclosed	653
	Totals	1063

The ODA defines majority ownership as a business with at least 51 per cent ownership by a member of one of these groups. This is in line with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills definition. There are also thousands of business opportunities in the supply chains, and while the ODA does not collect ownership details on this, it expects a number of contracts to be awarded to female, disabled and BAME-owned businesses.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

5673; 714 c21-2WA

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Disability Contracts Women Ethnic groups Minority groups Olympic Delivery Authority Olympic Games 2012

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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