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Written question asked by Seema Malhotra (Labour) on Friday, 1 November 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 November 2019. It was answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 November 2019 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Ministry of Defence: Honours

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of staff in his Department in receipt of each category of Honour in (a) December 2018 and (b) June 2019 were (i) from ethnic minority backgrounds and (ii) female aged (A) under 30, (B) 31 to 40, (C) 41 to 50 and (D) aged over 50.

Original answer

The Government is committed to ensuring that the honours system is fully representative of UK society. The proportion of women and people from ethnic minorities receiving recognition on each honours list is available on GOV.UK, and a breakdown of ethnicities of recipients is published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/honours-recipients-by-.

Information on ages is not correlated with other diversity factors. We also publish the proportion of honours by independent committee on GOV.UK. The numbers of honours recipients in the Ministry of Defence are very small and vary from year to year. Releasing the requested data would identify the individuals and they have given permission for their data to be used for statistical purposes only.

The answer was corrected by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative)

on Tuesday, 5 November 2019 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Corrected answer

The Government is committed to ensuring that the honours system is fully representative of UK society. The proportion of women and people from ethnic minorities receiving recognition on each honours list is available on GOV.UK, and a breakdown of ethnicities of recipients is published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/honours-recipients-by-.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/honours-recipients-by-ethnicity

Information on ages is not correlated with other diversity factors. We also publish the proportion of honours by independent committee on GOV.UK. The numbers of honours recipients in the Ministry of Defence are very small and vary from year to year. Releasing the requested data would identify the individuals and they have given permission for their data to be used for statistical purposes only.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
8593
Session
2019-19
Subjects
Honours Ministry of Defence
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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