From House of Commons Hansard
Written Answers: 5th December 2005

Home Office

5 Dec 2005 : Column 984W

Equality and Diversity

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2005, Official Report, column 1254W on equality and diversity, how much was spent on (a) compulsory diversity training in 2005, (b) launching the Development Plus programme, (c) testing for inappropriate behaviour during the 2005 senior management exercises, (d) Diversity week in each of the last three years and (e) networks supporting (i) black and ethnic minority, (ii) disabled, (iii) lesbian, gay and bisexual and (iv) transgendered and transsexual members of staff in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [28293]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The information requested is as follows:

⁽³⁰⁾ This information is not centrally collected.

(b) No money was spent on launching the Development Plus programme.

(c) Testing for inappropriate behaviour during the 2005 senior management assessment centres—£12,915.

⁽³¹⁾ No records were kept.

⁽³²⁾ This covered events in central London and prison establishments. Staff from the Core Home Office and IND were also invited to attend.

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(e) The Core Home Office funds three staff support networks: The Network (set up in 1999) which supports black and ethnic minority staff; HODS (set up in 2002) which supports disabled staff; and, SPECTRUM (set up in 2003) which supports lesbian, gay bisexual and transsexual and transgender staff. Details of the networks' expenditure since their formation is shown as follows:

The Prison Service RESECT staff support network for black and minority ethnic staff received £400,000, £453,000 and £394,000 in financial years 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05 respectively. The Prison Service GALIPS staff support network (established in July 2004) for lesbian, gay bisexual and transsexual and transgender staff received £145,000 of funding in financial years 2004–05 and 2005–06.

David T.C. Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 3 November 2005, Official Report, column 1254W, on equality and diversity, how many (a) black and ethnic minority, (b) disabled, (c) lesbian, gay, bisexual and (d) transgendered and transsexual staff have been employed by (i) his Department, (ii) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, (iii) HM Prison Service and (iv) the UK Passport Service in each of the last 20 years for which figures are available. [28295]

Mr. Charles Clarke: The following figures are taken from the Cabinet Office Mandate return for April in each of the years between 2000 and 2004. Data for years prior to 2000 are not readily available and data for 2005 have not yet been published.

The Home Office has not yet started to monitor the number of its staff by sexual orientation or gender identity, although we have recently introduced monitoring of our HR processes, including recruitment, promotion and training, against those diversity strands.

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