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Homes and Communities Agency: Equal Opportunities

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what proportion of staff of the (a) Homes and Communities Agency and (b) Tenant Services Authority are (i) women and (ii) from black and minority ethnic groups; (308771)

(2) what guidance his Department has provided to the (a) Homes and Communities Agency and (b) Tenant Services Authority on diversity.

With respect of the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), 56 per cent. of staff are female and 11 per cent. are from black and minority ethnic groups, and for the Tenants Services Authority (TSA), 59 per cent. of staff are female and 19 per cent. are from black and minority ethnic groups.

The HCA has developed its own Single Equality scheme ‘Diverse intentions’ published in November 2009

http://www.homesandcommunities.co.uk/equality

This covers all of HCA's functions as a housing and regeneration delivery agency, and as an employer.

In addition, the TSA is about to publish it's Single Equalities scheme setting how it will fulfil its obligations and wider role on equality issues.