PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Performance Appraisal (24 June 2014)

To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, what proportion of (a) disabled and (b) all other staff employed by the Government Equalities Office received each level of performance rating in their end of year performance assessment for 2013-14.

Asked by:
Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour)

The table sets out the percentage of employees, within each performance category, who have declared a disability, and the percentage of all other staff in each performance category for the 2013-14 reporting year for assessments received to date. The percentage of all other staff includes staff who have either explicitly declared that they do not have a disability, have chosen the ‘prefer not to say' option, or have not responded to the question at all.

Percentage
	Excellent	Good	Must Improve
Percentage of employees who have declared a disability in each performance rating	0%	4.2%	8.3%
Percentage of all other staff employed in each performance rating	33.3%	45.8%	8.3%

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) takes seriously its obligations to collect diversity data as required by the Equality Act 2010. All staff have been asked to provide personal diversity data to be held anonymously, and we continue to encourage increased declaration by staff. As such these figures will not be fully representative of workforce diversity.

Answered by:
Helen Grant (Conservative)
1 July 2014