PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department of Health and Social Care: Equality (10 September 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many positions in his Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.

Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Reform UK)

The Department currently has two positions which include either diversity, inclusion, equity, or equality in their job title. The following table shows the roles the title included, the total roles, and the total salaries, from 2020/21 to August of 2024:

Role title includes	2024	2023/24	2022/23	2021/22	2020/21
Diversity	0	0	4	14 (11)	10
Inclusion	1	4	8	0	0
Equity	1	1	0	1	0
Equality	0	0	1	2	0
Total roles	2	5	13	17	10
Total salary	£114,264	£363,338	£619,969	£842,077	£515,784

Note: the number of roles with diversity and inclusion in the job title have been included under diversity, only to avoid duplication.

Answered by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
19 September 2024