Department for Transport: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 1st October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of staff who applied for promotion within his Department from 1 September 2018 to 1 September 2019 and who identified as (a) BAME and (b) White were successful by each grade in his Department.
The way that roles are advertised as either across government or external means that it is not possible to identify promotion opportunities only available to existing Department for Transport employees.
The data which can be provided is the number and proportion of BAME and White total applicants and successful applicants for all recruitment campaigns between 1 September 2018 and 1 September 2019. The whole data set is provided because existing Department for Transport employees have the opportunity to apply for all these roles and could achieve a promotion if successful.
This breakdown provided in the table and covers the Department for Transport and its four Executive Agencies (the Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA)).
Grade | Ethnic Group | Total Number of Applications | Total Number of Successful Applicants | % of total applications by ethnicity at each grade | % of successful applicants by ethnicity at each grade |
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Administrative Officer | White | 274 | 57 | 94% | 93% |
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| BAME | 12 | 4 | 4% | 7% |
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| Prefer not to say | 5 | 0 | 2% | 0% |
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| Total: | 291 | 61 |
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Executive Officer | White | 1085 | 98 | 85% | 94% |
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| BAME | 153 | 3 | 12% | 3% |
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| Prefer not to say | 40 | 3 | 3% | 3% |
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| Total: | 1278 | 104 |
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Higher Executive Officer | White | 1186 | 81 | 57% | 75% |
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| BAME | 739 | 21 | 35% | 19% |
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| Prefer not to say | 157 | 6 | 8% | 6% |
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| Total: | 2082 | 108 |
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Senior Executive Officer | White | 763 | 63 | 53% | 68% |
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| BAME | 542 | 23 | 38% | 25% |
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| Prefer not to say | 128 | 6 | 9% | 7% |
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| Total: | 1433 | 92 |
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Grade 7 | White | 611 | 56 | 61% | 88% |
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| BAME | 310 | 4 | 31% | 7% |
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| Prefer not to say | 86 | 4 | 9% | 7% |
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| Total: | 1007 | 64 |
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Grade 6 | White | 378 | 33 | 76% | 92% |
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| BAME | 80 | 0 | 16% | 0% |
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| Prefer not to say | 40 | 3 | 8% | 8% |
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| Total: | 498 | 36 |
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Total | White | BAME | Prefer not to say |
Applications | 65% | 28% | 7% |
Successful | 84% | 12% | 4% |
More details on the limitations of providing data on only promotions.
For vacancies advertised across government, individuals need to have a verified account to confirm their eligibility as existing Civil Servants. As part of their personal profile, Civil Servants are requested to provide their current substantive grade. If individuals have not completed their personal profile we would be unable to identify whether they were promoted.
For vacancies advertised externally, individuals have the option to use a privately registered account as there is no requirement for them to confirm that they are existing Civil Servants. This means that in the instance that an existing Civil Servant applies for an externally advertised vacancy using a private account, then we cannot identify whether or not the successful individual is being promoted.
The diversity of applicants applying for posts that are advertised regionally will be affected by the percentage of BAME individuals in the working population.