Speeches

Sharon Hodgson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sharon Hodgson on 2014-06-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.

Mrs Helen Grant

The table shows the proportion of staff within the Department for Culture, media and Sport who have been dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years and declared themselves as white British.

Year

Percentage of DCMS headcount who have been dismissed

Proportion of staff dismissed following formal disciplinary proceedings who declared themselves as white British

Proportion of staff subject to disciplinary proceedings who declared their nationality as British but ethnicity is undeclared

1 April 2009 – 31 March 2010

0%

1 April 2010 – 31 March 2011

0%

1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012

0.2%

100%

0%

1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013

0%

1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014

0%

The figures as they relate to the period from September 2012 include the Government Equalities Office, which joined the Department in that month as part of a machinery of Government move. Before September 2012, the Government Equalities Office was part of the Home Office and the information requested for this period is not available.