{"value":{"id":1753339,"askingMemberId":452,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-21T00:00:00","uin":"HL3800","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government how many staff from ethnic minority backgrounds were employed in the youth justice secure estate on (1) 31 March 2024, and (2) 30 September 2024.","answeringBodyId":54,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Justice","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5364,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-16T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Information is held on staffing numbers in the public-sector youth secure estate, and is published quarterly at table 5b of the HMPPS Workforce Statistics Bulletin:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan=\"4\"><p><strong>Table 5b: Youth Custody Estate staff in post, by protected characteristic</strong> (headcount)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Protected characteristic</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Group</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>31-Mar-2024</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30-Sep-2024</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ethnicity</p></td><td><p>Ethnic Minorities</p></td><td><p>292</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>1001</p></td><td><p>980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>177</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Declaration rate</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>86.9%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>88.0%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Ethnic minority representation %</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22.6%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24.8%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Staffing information in relation to settings that are managed independently is not held by HM Prison &amp; Probation Service.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Youth Justice: Staff","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1753339","method":"GET"}]}