The Solicitor-General:
The current representation of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff in the CPS is 15 per cent. This compares with a national figure of 12.4 per cent. of the working age population being of BME origin. The CPS employs 41 per cent. BME staff in London, its highest representation of BME staff, compared with 35.8 per cent. of BME people of working age in London. In other CPS areas, the representation of BME staff range from 1 per cent. in Cumbria and North Yorkshire to 23 per cent. in West Midlands compared with a BME working population of 0.4 per cent. and 26.9 per cent. respectively. The following table provides a detailed breakdown of the data.
Black and minority ethni c staff
CPS areas
Community-working age
Number
Percentage
Total
Number
Percentage
Total
CPS London
567
41
1,369
1,851,500
35.8
5,177,300
CPS Avon and Somerset
9
5
182
38,100
4.7
816,500
CPS Bedfordshire
16
22
73
80,300
21.4
375,200
CPS Cambridgeshire
9
12
75
25,100
6.7
376,400
CPS Cheshire
5
4
112
12,300
2.0
614,000
CPS Cleveland
3
3
103
13,700
4.0
344,900
CPS Cumbria
1
1
83
1,200
0.4
295,400
CPS Derbyshire
13
11
120
34,700
5.7
608,700
CPS Devon and Cornwall
6
5
128
10,600
1.3
817,500
CPS Dorset
9
12
77
16,100
2.9
553,700
CPS Durham
4
4
97
5,500
1.5
372,900
CPS Dyfed Powys
-
0
61
2,300
0.8
293,500
CPS Essex
14
7
193
59,200
5.8
1,021,100
CPS Gloucestershire
5
9
56
32,400
5.2
629,100
CPS Greater Manchester
41
9
473
202,300
13.9
1,455,200
CPS Gwent
4
5
83
7,800
2.3
336,000
CPS Hampshire
11
4
247
63,900
5.0
1,284,800
CPS Hertfordshire
19
16
117
56,900
8.7
657,300
CPS Humberside
4
3
120
10,800
6.5
166,500
CPS Kent
13
7
181
39,300
4.7
833,200
CPS Lancashire
12
5
261
93,700
9.0
1,042,200
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CPS Leicestershire
27
22
123
111,400
18.9
589,800
CPS Lincolnshire
4
6
71
14,600
2.4
599,900
CPS Merseyside
6
2
256
35,600
4.3
822,800
CPS Norfolk
6
7
92
12,100
2.5
492,400
CPS North Wales
3
4
83
2,900
0.7
399,500
CPS North Yorkshire
1
1
87
12,600
1.9
675,700
CPS Northamptonshire
16
21
78
46,000
8.7
530,800
CPS Northumbria
9
3
274
39,800
4.6
869,500
CPS Nottinghamshire
13
7
180
64,500
9.3
695,700
CPS South Wales
13
5
243
36,900
4.8
762,300
CPS South Yorkshire
10
5
196
64,400
9.6
669,900
CPS Staffordshire
7
5
146
34,600
5.3
651,700
CPS Suffolk
3
4
70
14,300
3.4
418,000
CPS Surrey
13
15
85
67,900
8.8
769,600
CPS Sussex
10
6
171
45,000
5.0
895,500
CPS Thames Valley
36
15
248
157,800
13.1
1,203,700
CPS Warwickshire
7
16
43
23,700
7.3
322,700
CPS West Mercia
5
3
151
23,100
3.3
707,200
CPS West Midlands
117
23
512
429,200
26.9
1,593,100
CPS West Yorkshire
32
10
330
203,800
13.4
1,520,800
CPS Wiltshire
2
3
62
5,900
2.2
264,000
Business Centres total(1)
14
10
147
(1)-
(1)-
(1)-
Casework total(1)
71
20
356
(1)-
(1)-
(1)-
Head Quarters total(1)
92
18
507
(1)-
(1)-
(1)-
CPS Direct
18
11
163
(1)-
(1)-
(1)-
Total
1,300
15
8,885
4,151,700
12.4
33,526,000
(1) Staff in these divisions work in multiple locations across the country including home working. Notes:
1. Data taken from quarterly Intranet Stats published to CPS Infonet.
2. Data may be subject to change due to retrospective changes in the HR database.
3. Data exclude career break staff.
4. Communities data taken from ONS NOMIS database (Labour Force Statistics). Source:
HR database Trent as at 1 October 2009.
