Speeches

Sharon Hodgson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proportion of staff within his Department who have been subject to formal disciplinary proceedings in each of the last five financial years classed themselves as white British.

Dan Rogerson

The data in the table relates to staff in core Defra only.

Financial Year

Percentage of staff subject to formal disciplinary proceedings who have not declared their ethnicity

Percentage of staff subject to formal disciplinary proceedings who have declared themselves to be white British

2009-10

33%

67%

2010-11

75%

25%

2011-12

33%

67%

2012-13

17%

67%

2013-14

25%

67%

Employees declare their ethnicity and national identity on a voluntary basis.