Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a list of (a) professional staff networks and (b) social clubs operating within his Department; and if he will provide the (i) budgets and (ii) FTE staff time allocated to each group within each of the last three years.
The Department has the following established staff networks:
- EnABLE (disability);
- Autism;
- Diversity of Thought;
- Race Equality Matters Network;
- PRISM (LGBT+);
- Women’s;
- Parents’;
- Age Diversity;
- Carers’,
- EU Nationals;
- Social Mobility;
- Men’s Health;
- Christian;
- Muslim;
- Jewish;
- Hinduism and Sikhism;
- Healthy Humanists;
- Flexible Working;
- Green;
- Science and Engineering;
- Apprenticeship;
- Personal Assistant;
- Fast Stream;
- Domestic Abuse Support;
- Eating Disorder Support;
- AO/EO;
- HEO/SEO; and
- Grade 6/7.
Information on social clubs is not held in the format requested. There is no specific budget allocated to staff networks, although networks can access the central diversity and inclusion budget if required. No full time equivalent staff time has been allocated to each network or group in the last three years.