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Tue 27th April
He said: “There have long been concerns about the under representation of staff from a Catholic background in the Prison Service.
“The Justice Minister’s refusal to even acknowledge that there could be a problem is worrying and will do very little to instill public confidence in his ability to tackle some of the big problems facing the justice system here in Northern Ireland.
“I am calling on him again to show he is interested in proving that devolution can make a difference and publish the information which I requested as soon as possible.”
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Written Answer AQW 6104/10 - Staff by Community Background
To ask the Minister of Finance and Personnel (i) for a breakdown of staff by community background in (a) the Northern Ireland Prison Service; (b) the Northern Ireland Court Service; and (c) the Department of Justice; (ii) for his assessment of whether different communities are proportionately represented in each; and (iii) what steps he intends to take to address any under-representation which may exist.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service and the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunal Service are now part of the Department of Justice and as such their staff are members of the Northern Ireland Civil Service. For the purposes of the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998 the Northern Ireland Civil Service is treated as a single employer and responsibility for monitoring falls to my Department.
Community background information is collected for the purpose of providing statutory returns to the Equality Commission and to enable the Service to monitor the effectiveness of its equal opportunities policies. The information is not processed in a way that identifies the community background profile of parts of Departments. To provide the information in the format required would require my Department to further process the data in a way that is not compatible with the reasons for which it is collected and consequently it cannot be provided.
As required by the Fair Employment and Treatment (NI) Order 1998, my Department will continue to carry out regular reviews of the extent of fair participation across the NI Civil Service and will take appropriate action where a lack of fair participation is found
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