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Mr. Meacher
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give a breakdown of female employment in his Department by grade, giving salary bands.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard
The table shows the number of women in each grade. To give the salary bands would be disproportionately expensive. A copy of the "Civil Service Pay and Conditions of Service Code", which gives salary details, is in the Library.
| Number of female staff by grade in DSS | |
| Grade | Number |
| Grade 1 | — |
| Grade 2 and equivalent | — |
| Grade 3 and equivalent | 5 |
| Grade 4 and equivalent | — |
| Grade 5 and equivalent | 23 |
| Grade 6 and equivalent | 40 |
| Grade 7 and equivalent | 82 |
| SEO and equivalent | 221 |
| HEO and equivalent | 1,824 |
| EO and equivalent | 12,943 |
| AO and equivalent | 28,886 |
| AA and equivalent | 10,638 |
| Secretarial/typing | 2,217 |
| Support | 763 |
| Others | 29 |
| Total | 57,671 |