Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 27 February 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of staff recruited to his Department since 5 May 2010 identified their ethnicity as (a) white British and (b) from a minority ethnic background.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) publishes an annual Equality Report which provides information about the diversity and makeup of our staff, as required by the Equality Act 2010. We only report on declared data as disclosure of diversity information is voluntary.
Reports were published in 2012 and 2013 and included information on the proportion of staff recruited in 2011 and 2012 that identified their ethnicity as (a) white and (b) from a BME background. The reports are published at:
The proportion of staff recruited to the FCO in 2013 who voluntary identified their ethnicity as (a) white was 71% and (b) minority ethnic background was 9%. This information will be published in our 2014 Equality Report.
We could only collate the data for May to December 2010 at disproportionate cost. Since January 2011 we have improved the way in which we capture this data.
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