Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of his Department's staff, excluding non-departmental public bodies, are (a) women in senior management posts, (b) women, (c) black and minority ethnic and (d) disabled.

The below figures are all taken at 30/06/2019

A) The proportion of women currently in senior management posts (Deputy Director level and above) is 54.7 per cent

B) The proportion of women in the Department is 51.8 per cent

C) The table below gives the figures for black and minority ethnic staff, the calculations exclude any staff who have not disclosed their ethnicity information, the declaration rate is 77.4 per cent.

D) The table below gives the figures for Disabled staff within the Department the calculations exclude any staff who have not disclosed their ethnicity information, the declaration rate is 73.1%.