Regional Development Agencies: Manpower

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many (a) black and minority ethnic people and (b) women have served as board members of a regional development agency (RDA); and what percentage of the board of each RDA each group represented in each year since 2001. (291760)

Details of the number of women and black and minority ethnic people on the Regional Development Boards since 2001 and shown as a percentage of the Board.

For new appointments up to April 2009 BIS have 33.5 per cent. women and 4. per cent. black and ethnic minorities on their boards overall. BIS targets by 2011 are 50 per cent. board members to be women and 11 per cent. ethnic minority.

*Women*
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
RDA	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
AWM	3	23	2	13	3	20	4	27	3	20	3	20	3	20	3	20	3	20
EEDA	3	25	5	33	5	33	6	40	6	40	4	27	3	20	4	27	5	33
EMDA	4	29	6	40	6	40	3	20	3	20	4	27	3	20	4	27	4	27
NWDA	4	31	4	27	4	27	4	27	5	33	5	33	5	33	5	33	4	27
One NE	3	23	5	33	6	40	6	40	6	40	5	33	5	33	5	33	5	33
SEEDA	5	33	4	27	4	27	3	20	3	20	3	20	4	27	3	20	4	27
SWRDA	3	23	4	27	4	27	5	33	5	33	5	33	6	40	5	33	5	33
YF	4	31	6	40	5	33	6	40	6	40	6	40	6	40	6	40	5	33
Total	29	27	36	30	37	31	37	31	37	31	35	29	35	29	35	29	35	29

*Ethnic Minority*
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
RDA	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
AWIW	2	15	3	20	2	13	2	13	1	7	1	7	1	7	0	0	0	0
EEDA	0	0	2	13	2	13	1	7	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7
EM DA	0	0	2	13	2	13	1	7	2	13	2	13	1	7	1	7	1	7
NWDA	0	0	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
One NE	1	8	2	13	2	13	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SEEDA	0	0	1	7	1	7	2	13	2	13	2	13	2	13	2	13	2	13
SWRDA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
YF	1	8	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	1	7	2	13
Total	4	4	12	10	11	9	9	8	8	7	7	6	5	4	4	3	6	5

The London Development Agency is not included in the above statistics as it is the responsibility of the Mayor of London and not the Minister.

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009