§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health 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. [110685]
§ Yvette CooperAs at 1 April 1999, 14 members of the senior civil service in the Department were from an ethnic minority background (3.8 per cent. of staff with ethnicity recorded). Of these, there were five women and nine men.