§ Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to her answer of 10 April 2002,Official Report, column 271W, on gender-based assessments, if she will publish the assessment reports relating to her Department's gender, ethnic, disability and full time/part time categories completed since June 2001. [51741]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 23 April 2002]: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was created on 9 June 2001. The new Department brings together staff previously employed in parts of both DETR and the Home Office with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Robust data on staff in post in DEFRA were not available until recently. An assessment was undertaken on 15 March 2002 and the resulting data are included in the table. This position reflects the staff profile for permanent staff in the core-Department on that date.
Total Men Number 3,701 Percentage 52 Women Number 3,483 Percentage 48 Part time Number 703 Percentage 10 Ethnic minority1 Number 384 Percentage 5 Disabled Number 406 Percentage 6 1 Due to current ethnic re-survey, ethnicity data are incomplete and should therefore be interpreted with care. The figures in the table are based on a 70 per cent. response rate. Estimated overall margin of error for staff in post currently = ±1.5 per cent. Data exclude casual staff.