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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics
Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p>Dear Viscount Waverley,</p><p><br>As
National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding
to your Parliamentary Question asking what the percentage breakdown of public sector
employees is by (1) gender, and (2) ethnicity for each region of the United Kingdom
(HL164444).</p><p><br>Estimates of employees by sector of employment are available
from the Annual Population Survey (APS), a household survey of people in the UK. In
the APS, the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents’
views about the organisation for which they work. This may differ from how we would
classify them for the headline measure of public sector employment. The APS also collects
information regarding respondents’ sex and ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1 contains
estimates of the percentage of public sector employees broken down by sex within each
region. Table 2 contains estimates of the percentage of public sector employees broken
down by ethnicity within each region. Both breakdowns use APS data for April 2018
to March 2019, the latest period for which data are available.</p><p>As the data are
quite extensive, copy of both tables have been placed in the House of Commons Library.</p><p><br>Yours
sincerely,</p><p><br><strong>John Pullinger</strong></p>
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