FOI reference: FOI-2025-2814
You asked
I am sending this request under the Freedom of Information Act to ask for the following information:
1. Does you department/ public body know what its ethnicity pay gap was for the reporting years April 2023 to 31 March 2024, April 2022 to 31 March 2023 or April 2021 to May 2022, please?
1a. If it did monitor the ethnicity pay gap in any or all of these years, please share the results with me.
(For the avoidance of doubt, I want to know what the ethnicity pay gaps were for these years. Please provide me with any written outcomes of this monitoring, even if these are internal documents.)
2. Is your department/public body currently monitoring its ethnicity pay gap for the April 2025 to March 2026 reporting period, please?
2a. If it is monitoring this, does it currently intend to publish the results?
3. How many FTE employees currently work for your department/ non-governmental public body?
3a. If possible, please provide an ethnicity breakdown for these employees.
We said
Thank you for your recent request for data under the Freedom of Information Act.
The UK Statistics Authority / Office for National Statistics has monitored the ethnicity pay gap for the periods quoted.
For April 2021 to March 2022, our pay gap was 3.6% as calculated by the mean average, and 0.3% as calculated by the median average. Our bonus pay gap was 19.5% as calculated by the mean average, and 16.7% as calculated by the median average.
For April 2022 to March 2023, our pay gap was 3.8% as calculated by the mean average, and 0.3% as calculated by the median average. Our bonus pay gap was 26.2% as calculated by the mean average, and 20.0% as calculated by the median average.
For April 2023 to March 2024, our pay gap was 5.2% as calculated by the mean average, and 5.1% as calculated by the median average. Our bonus pay gap was 33.2% as calculated by the mean average, and 33.3% as calculated by the median average.
We intend to continue monitoring our ethnicity pay gap, and will publish the results in line with central civil service guidance.
At 31 March 2025, our employee headcount was 5,632 (5,049 full time equivalent). Of those 5,632 colleagues, 4,228 had declared their ethnicity as white, 512 had declared as being from an ethnic minority, 70 had declared that they preferred not to state and 822 had not made a declaration.