Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Black and ethnic minority staff are employed by his Department.

The number of staff employed by the department who have declared themselves to be Black and ethnic minority is 1125 as of the 30^th June 2021.

The breakdown between the central Department and the Executive Agencies is as follows:

Note that the figures for black and ethnic minority staff do not include members of staff who have chosen either not to interact with the voluntary declaration system, or those who have chosen to interact but have declared that they prefer not to say.

The current declaration rate for ethnicity for the department is currently 86.61%.