Departmental Recruitment

Mr. Hoyle
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what data his Department holds on the level of diversity in its recruitment of employees in each of the last three years.

Chris Bryant
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office holds the following data on the level of diversity in its recruitment of employees, into both the senior management structure and the delegated grades, in the last three financial years:

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|Percentage                                                                                |
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|Recruits from a Black or ethnic minority background                                       |2|9|11|
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|Recruits who are female                                                                   |23|47|52|
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|Recruits with a registered disability                                                     |4|4|4|
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|1 Data for financial year (FY) 2009-10 cover campaigns completed as of end of August 2009.||||
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Further diversity statistics of UK-based staff can be found in the following publication:

http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/4103709/5476465/departmental-report/dept-report-vol2-2