To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the total number of employees in his Department; and how many are (a) black, and (b) disabled.
The total number of staff in post in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office including the Overseas Development Administration at 1 April 1991 was 8,277. In voluntary surveys 181 had declared themselves to be of ethnic minority origin. At 1 June 1991 the FCO employed 49 registered disabled staff.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing the number of (a) men and (b) women in his Department in each of grades (i) 1, (ii) 2, (iii) 3, (iv) 4, (v) 5, (vi) 6, (vii) 7, (viii) SEO, (ix) HEO, (x) administrative trainee, (xi) EO, (xii), CO and (xiii) CA.
The latest available figures for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including the Overseas Development Administration, are as follows:
| Grade (and Equivalents) | Male | Female |
| 1 | 8 | — |
| 2 | 31 | — |
| 3 | 121 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | — |
| 5 | 329 | 14 |
| 6 | 99 | 12 |
| 7 | 647 | 93 |
| SEO | 464 | 71·5 |
| HEO | 919 | 259 |
| AT | 218 | 20 |
| EO | 939·5 | 764·5 |
| AO | 1,210 | 1,463·5 |
| AA | 235 | 329·5 |