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Written question asked by Lord Ouseley (Crossbench) on Monday, 6 March 2017, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 March 2017. It was answered by Lord Ashton of Hyde (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 March 2017 on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Staff

Question

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 2 March (HL5547), how many (1) female candidates, and (2) candidates from a BAME background, were appointed to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the first three quarters of 2016–17; and what are the proportions of (a) women, (b) BAME people, and (c) people with disabilities, employed by those parts of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport covered by its Departmental Plan.

Answer

From 1st April 2016 to 31st December 2016, there were 131 new starters in the department. Of these:

  1. 65 were female
  1. 13 were from a BAME background*

On 1st February 2017, the proportion of people actively declaring as each of the following protected characteristics was:

a) Female: 51%

b) BAME: 13%

c) Disabled: 5%

The figures above include permanent and fixed term employees as well as loans/secondments in to the department and employees on paid maternity leave.

* It should be noted that among the 131 new starters there is an ethnicity declaration rate of 47%. That is, of the 61 DCMS starters who have actively declared their ethnicity, 13 were from a BAME background.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL5835
Session
2016-17
Related items
Public Appointments: Equality
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Written questions
House of Lords
Subjects
Disability Women Ethnic groups Recruitment Staff Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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