Candidates gender, nationality and ethnicity who applied for legal trainee: FOI release

Information requested

1. For the post of legal trainee solicitor – the sex , gender , nationality and ethnicity of those offered an interview for 2021, 2020 and 2019.

2. For the post of legal trainee solicitor – the sex , gender, nationality and ethnicity of those offered the post for 2021, 2020 and 2019

Response

Please note in line with the statistics code of practice we use disclosure control to suppress reporting of small groups in order prevent the potential identification of individual members of staff. In this instance any groups of staff between 1 and 4 (inclusive) have been replaced by *. We do not suppress a zero figure.”

“It is also necessary to apply secondary suppression to prevent the calculation of a suppressed figure.”

For the post of legal trainee solicitor – those offered an interview (2019-2021)

Sex	2019	2020	2021 (to date)
Female	8	14	0
Male	7	12	0
National identity
Scottish	8	19	0
British	*	4	0
Polish	*	*	0
Other - EU National	*	*	0
Other	*	*	0
Prefer Not To Say	*	*	0
Ethnicity
Asian	*	*	0
White	12	24	0
Multiple Ethnic Group	*	*	0
Prefer Not To Say	*	*	0
Total	15	26	0

For the post of legal trainee solicitor – those offered a post (2019-2021)

Sex	2019	2020	2021 (to date)
Female	*	*	0
Male	*	*	0
National identity
Scottish	*	*	0
British	*	*	0
Polish	*	*	0
Other - EU National	*	*	0
Other	*	*	0
Prefer Not To Say	*	*	0
Ethnicity
Asian	*	*	0
White	*	*	0
Multiple Ethnic Group	*	*	0
Prefer Not To Say	*	*	0
Total	*	8	0

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