Greg Mulholland – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Greg Mulholland on 2016-05-24.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average hourly earnings were of his Department’s (a) BME and (b) non-BME employees in (i) 2015 and (ii) 2016.
Jane Ellison
The information requested (as at 31 March in each of the two years) is presented below. The figures given take into consideration only information about staff who have formally declared their ethnicity.
|
Average Hourly Rate 2015 |
Average Hourly Rate 2016 |
|
|
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Staff |
£18.50 |
£19.03 |
|
Non-Black and Minority Ethnic (Non-BME) Staff |
£24.23 |
£24.34 |
17% of the Department’s staff are BME which is above the Civil Service average. The difference in average hourly rates between BME and non BME staff is due to there being a higher proportion of BME staff in junior grades at present.
To encourage recruitment and promotion of talented individuals from a BME background, the Department has undertaken several initiatives including, but not limited to, blind recruitment forms, mandatory unconscious bias training for all staff and a suite of other Diversity and Inclusion training, such as Race Awareness, Positive Action Pathways, and Future Leaders Schemes.
