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Written question asked by Maria Eagle (Labour) on Thursday, 18 January 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 January 2024. It was answered by James Cartlidge (Conservative) on Friday, 26 January 2024 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Defence Equipment & Support: Equality

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 40 of the Defence Equipment and Support Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, what the 16 sub-targets were; and of those, which (a) were and (b) were not met.

Answer

The status of the 16 sub-targets for DE&S KPI 4.1 (Culture and Inclusion), at the end of reporting year 2022-23, is shown in the table below. Note that since the publication of these sub-targets the nomenclature of the grade Senior Admin Specialist (SAS) has changed to Senior Technical Specialist.

Targets

Status

Commercial

Increase Ethnic Minority (EM) representation at Senior Admin Specialist (SAS) – Professional II (PII) to 6.5%

Not Met

Increase female representation at Professional I (PI) – Senior Professional (SP) to 41.8%

Met

Corporate Services Group

Increase female representation at SP to be 35%

Not Met

Increase EM representation to be 6%

Not Met

Engineering

20% of Engineering new joiners to be female

Not Met

Maintain female attrition 0.5% below male rate

Not Met

Finance & Accounting

Increase disabled representation at PI - SP to 4.2%

Not Met

Increase EM representation at PI - SP to 8.4%

Met

HR

Increase EM representation to 7.5%

Met

Maintain Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Other representation at ≥3.4%

Met

Integrated Logistics

Increase female representation in PII-SP to 26.5%

Met

Increase EM representation in PII - PI to 4.9%

Not Met

Information Management & IT

Increase female representation at PII – SP to 30.5%

Met

Increase in EM representation at PII – SP to 7.1%

Met

Project Delivery

Increase female representation at PI to 30%

Not Met

Increase EM representation at PI to 4%

Not Met

DE&S uses its own grade structure and grading methodology. This utilises a broadly comparable read across to Civil Service grades, but does not confirm exact grade equivalency between DE&S and other Civil Service organisations:

DE&S Grade

Civil Service Grade

Senior Leadership Group 3 (SLG3*)

Director General (Senior Civil Service 3)

Senior Leadership Group 2 (SLG2*)

Director (Senior Civil Service 2)

Senior Leadership Group 1 (SLG1*)

Deputy Director (Senior Civil Service 1)

Senior Professional (SP)

G6

Professional I (PI)

G7

Professional II (PII)

Senior Executive Officer (SEO)

Senior Technical/Senior Specialist I (STSI)

Higher Executive Officer (HEO)

Senior Technical/Senior Specialist II (STSII)

Executive Officer (EO)

Technical/Specialist I (TSI)

Administrative Officer (AO)

Technical/Specialist II (TSII)

Administrative Assistant (AA)

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
10399
Session
2023-24
Related items
Subjects
Equality Standards Defence Equipment & Support
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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