Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have compiled any statistics on the gender and ethnicity of holders of leadership roles in Russell Group higher education institutions; and if so, whether they will publish those statistics.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is responsible for the collection and publication of data for UK higher education instutions, including for members of the Russell Group.

Information on the higher education workforce is collected as part of HESA’s Staff Record, including ethnicity and gender. However, HESA does not publish this data specifically relating to those within leadership roles.

Further information on the data collected and published by HESA can be found on the HESA website at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/staff-2016-17.