§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Solicitor-General how many senior civil servants from an ethnic minority background are employed in the Law Officers' Department; and how many of them are(a) men and (b) women. [110690]
The Solicitor-GeneralAs at 1 April 1999, 55 members of the Senior Civil Service were from ethnic minority background (1.7 per cent.).
Information on ethnic origin in the Civil Service is collected 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.
The Law Officers' Departments (The Crown Prosecution Service, Treasury Solicitor's Department and the Serious Fraud Office) have four members of the SCS declared to be of ethnic minority background as at 1 April 1999.