FOI release

Breakdown of SIA licence holders by gender and ethnicity

Published 17 August 2020

1. Request

Statistics on the gender and ethnicity breakdown of licence holders for each of the last 5 years.

2. Response

I can confirm that we hold some of the information you have requested.

The table below provides the breakdown of licences granted by gender over the past 5 years.

August to July Female Male Total % Female
2015-16 11,501 114,134 125,635 9.2%
2016-17 12,396 112,110 124,506 10.0%
2017-18 15,804 144,999 160,803 9.8%
2018-19 15,285 130,868 146,153 10.5%
2019-20 13,371 119,643 133,014 10.1%
Grand Total 68,357 621,754 690,111 9.9%

We do not currently collect ethnicity data from applicants. However, we are working on a project to collect more data from our licence holders. You may wish to check the industry statistics that we publish each month as this will be where we publish any additional data that we start collecting. They currently already provide a snapshot of our current licence holders, broken down by the demographic data we collect.

[Reference: FOI 0222]