Written question asked by Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party) on Monday, 3 June 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 5 June 2019. It was answered by Chris Skidmore (Conservative) on Tuesday, 11 June 2019 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Research and Science: Equality
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment she has made of (a) female and (b) BAME representation in senior science and research jobs.
- Answer
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This is publicly available information.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish data on employment by occupation, which is available by gender: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/employmentbyoccupationemp04
The Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) publish data on academic research staff in UK universities, broken down by seniority, sex and ethnicity through the Higher Education Staff Data, Detailed Tables 13 and 15: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 259219
- Session
- 2017-19
- Grouped for answer
- Yes
- Transferred
- Yes
- Subjects
- Women Equality Ethnic groups Research Science
- Contains statistics
- Yes
- Link
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- 2019-06-11 17:45:03 +0100
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