To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the numbers of staff by grade that are employed in his Department and agencies In the automatic data processing functional specialism.

The number of staff by grade employed in the Department in the automatic data processing functional specialism is as follows:

	Number
SEO	18
HEO	50
EO	66
AO	14
AA	20
Total	168

None is employed in the Teachers' Pensions Agency, although a proportion are employed in account management, developmental and support work for the agency.