Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Carers
(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in his Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.
Each year DCMS participates in the Civil Service-wide People Survey, which includes the question ‘‘Do you look after or give help or support to any family members, friends, neighbours or others who have a long-term physical or mental illness or disability, or problems related to old age?”
The number of people responding positively to this question in each of the last 5 years is in the table below alongside the total respondents and the response rate.
The total respondents is the number of people in DCMS who completed the People Survey each year. The response rate is the total number of respondents in DCMS as a percentage of the DCMS workforce.
This information is not a workforce statistic, so only representative of those who completed the survey each year but is the best information available.
Year | Positive responses | Total respondents | Response rate |
2015 | 80 | 509 | 96% |
2016 | 84 | 652 | 98% |
2017 | 109 | 788 | 98% |
2018 | Not available | 1,037 | 91% |
2019 | 170 | 1,161 | 97% |
The number of positive responses in 2018 is not available as the granular data was not analysed by the Central Analysis Team who produced the information for the other years.