Department for Work and Pensions: Senior Civil Servants

(asked on 2nd February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) ethnicity, (b) gender, (c) disability status, (d) educational background and (e) socio-economic status is of the three most senior officials of his Department.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 8th February 2017

DWP’s Executive Team is made up of eight members: six men and two women. We would not be able to report on their ethnicity, disability status or educational background as this is classed as sensitive personal data which has legal protection under the Data Protection Act 1998.

We are unable to report on their socio-economic background as there is currently no commonly agreed definition for socio-economic background across the Civil Service.

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