Ministry of Justice: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 1st October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 available information relating to the request is provided below and in the attached table.
Number of internal3 applicants8 known to have applied for promotion1 into the Ministry of Justice (excluding HMPPS2), by ethnicity and grade of post advertised, for recruitment campaigns closed5 between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 inclusive4:
Ethnicity | Number of applications made on promotion1, by grade of post | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 9,592 | 1,515 | 1,916 | 3,008 | 2,897 | 256 |
BAME | 3,829 | 480 | 740 | 1,320 | 1,203 | 86 |
White | 5,091 | 897 | 1,017 | 1,496 | 1,525 | 156 |
Not declared | 672 | 138 | 159 | 192 | 169 | 14 |
Ethnicity | Number of successful6 applications made on promotion1, by grade of post | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 932 | 117 | 185 | 247 | 346 | 37 |
BAME | 234 | 17 | 39 | 67 | 104 | 7 |
White | 660 | 95 | 137 | 169 | 230 | 29 |
Not declared | 38 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 1 |
Ethnicity | Percentage of applications submitted that were successful in the recruitment process | |||||
Bands A-E9 | Band A7 | Band B | Band C | Band D | Band E | |
All | 10% | 8% | 10% | 8% | 12% | 14% |
BAME | 6% | 4% | 5% | 5% | 9% | 8% |
White | 13% | 11% | 13% | 11% | 15% | 19% |
Not declared | 6% | 4% | 6% | 6% | 7% | 7% |