HC Deb 28 February 2000 vol 345 cc4-5W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many senior civil servants from an ethnic minority background are employed in his Department; and how many of them are(a) men and (b) women. [110687]

Ms Beverley Hughes

Information on ethnic origin in the Civil Service is collected on the basis of self-declaration and on the understanding that it will be treated on a confidential basis. To protect the privacy of individual members of staff we do not disclose data relating to fewer than five people.

My Department has fewer than five people in the senior civil service who have declared themselves to be of ethnic minority background.