Departmental Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many and what proportion of her Department's employees are (a) male, (b) female, (c) from an ethnic minority, (d) disabled and (e) not heterosexual; and if she will make a statement. (208401)

The Department for Transport recorded the following current data:

	Total	Percentage
Total Staff	19,543
Number of male	11,227	57.45
Number of female	8,316	42.55
Number ethnicity - white	16,138	82.58
Number ethnicity - ethnic minority (ALL)	1,017	5.20
Number ethnicity - not stated	2,388	12.22
Number of disabled	1,449	7.41

Data on sexual orientation is not currently collected across the Department for Transport nor published centrally.

Volume 477: debated on Thursday 12 June 2008