§ Mr. VazTo ask the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many and what percentage of employees in the House of Commons are of(a) Asian origin and (b) Afro-Caribbean origin, broken down by grade. [9561]
§ Mr. KirkwoodThe ethnic monitoring of staff employed by the Commission has been in place since 1988. This is on a voluntary basis and not all staff choose to respond to the ethnic monitoring questionnaire. The numbers and approximate percentages, by grade, of employees of(a) Asian origin and (b) Afro-Caribbean origin are: