To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department the number of (a) male and (b) female staff (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees. [35462]
The numbers of permanent industrial and non-industrial staff on 1 April 1995 on a head-count basis were as follows:
| (a) Male | (b) Female | |||
| Department | (i) Full-time | (ii) Part-time | (i)Full-time | (ii) Part-time |
| Health and Social Services | 639 | 3 | 460 | 55 |
| Social Security Agency | 1,654 | 11 | 2,878 | 526 |
| Child Support Agency | 297 | nil | 506 | 41 |
| Agriculture | 1,789 | 3 | 957 | 127 |
| Economic Development | 1,255 | 2 | 999 | 135 |
| (a) Male | (b) Female | |||
| Department | (i) Full-time | (ii) Part-time | (i) Full-time | (ii) Part-time |
| Education | 256 | 1 | 261 | 47 |
| Environment | 3,631 | 12 | 1,876 | 250 |
| Finance and Personnel | 671 | 2 | 572 | 118 |
| Northern Ireland Office | 677 | nil | 756 | 107 |
| Police Authority | 583 | 1 | 1,575 | 204 |
| Others | 24 | 1 | 22 | nil |
| Total | 11,476 | 36 | 10,862 | 1,610 |
Notes:
The figures for the Northern Ireland Office include both Northern Ireland Civil Service and Home Civil Service staff.
The figures do not include casual staff, staff on career breaks and Prison personnel.
The figures for the Social Security Agency and the Child Support Agency include staff who are undertaking work on behalf of and who are financed by the Home Civil Service.
The breakdown by grade of non-industrial staff was as follows:
(a) Male
| (b) Female
| |||
(i) Full-time
| (ii) Part-time
| (i) Full-time
| (ii) Part-time
| |
| Grade 1 | 2 | nil | nil | nil |
| Grade 2 | 8 | nil | nil | nil |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 1 | nil | nil |
| Grade 4 | 6 | nil | nil | nil |
| Grade 5 | 101 | nil | 11 | nil |
| Grade 6 | 23 | nil | nil | nil |
| Grade 7 | 331 | nil | 51 | 8 |
| Deputy Principal | 436 | nil | 143 | 10 |
| Staff Officer | 517 | nil | 336 | 36 |
| Officer I | 559 | 4 | 640 | 95 |
| Executive Officer II | 511 | nil | 861 | 105 |
| Administrative Officer | 1,016 | 3 | 2,248 | 364 |
| Administrative Assistant | 758 | nil | 2,110 | 219 |
| Other General Service Grades | 977 | 7 | 1,790 | 344 |
| Total General Service Grades | 5,280 | 15 | 8,190 | 1,181 |
| Other Grades | 6,196 | 21 | 2,672 | 429 |
| Total non-industrials Industrials | 11,476 | 36 | 10,862 | 1,610 |
| Total Northern Ireland Civil Servants | 14,898 | 77 | 10,913 | 1,636 |
Notes:
No breakdown of industrial staff is available. Figures are for the quarter April - June 1995.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what measures his Department has taken to encourage the promotion of women into senior positions within his Department and its executive agencies. [35670]
I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if he will list (a) the number of (i) male and (ii) female employees, (b) the number of officials employed at each of the principal grades and the number and percentages of women employed at these grades and (c) the numbers of staff employed at administrative grades and the number and percentages of these staff that are women, in his Department and for each of its executive agencies for each year since 1985. [356686]
The information is not readily available in the detail requested and could be produced only at disproportionate cost. The relevant figures for the Northern Ireland civil service for the years 1985, 1987, 1991 and 1993, inclusive of its executive agencies where appropriate, are contained in the regular series of biannual reports published by the central equal opportunities unit of the Northern Ireland civil service, the first of which was published in 1986 and the latest, containing the 1993 figures in June 1994. Copies of the reports are available in the Library.