To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many and what percentage of employees, in each pay band, in the quangos for which her Department is responsible, are of (a) Asian origin and (b) Afro-Caribbean origin. [9581]
My Department is responsible for 22 executive non-departmental public bodies, 25 advisory bodies and seven tribunals, considering the 28 industrial tribunals as one body. I regret that the information requested by my hon. Friend is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many civil servants there are in total on each pay band in her Department. [9582]
There are 3,950 civil servants in the DTI, excluding agency and Government office staff, with the following numbers by grade:
| Current serving grade | Number of staff |
| Assistant Librarian | 18 |
| Assistant Statistician | 10 |
| Administrative Assistant | 216 |
| Assistant Information Officer | 2 |
| Administrative Officer | 676 |
| Administration Trainee | 12 |
| Administration Trainee (Europe) | 2 |
| Chief Investigation Officer | 1 |
| Communications Officer IV | 2 |
| Deputy Chief Investigation Officer | 7 |
| Economic Assistant | 13 |
| Executive Officer | 672 |
| Grade 6 | 98 |
| Grade 7 | 541 |
| Higher Executive Officer | 594 |
| Higher Executive Officer D | 33 |
| Higher Executive Officer D (Europe) | 3 |
| Higher Mapping and Charting Officer | 1 |
| Higher Professional and Technology Officer | 10 |
| Higher Scientific Officer | 12 |
| Higher Scientific Officer (Development) | 11 |
| Insolvency Grade A | 3 |
| Insolvency Grade B | 17 |
| Insolvency Grade C | 24 |
| Investigation Officer | 57 |
| Information Officer | 16 |
| Legal Officer | 5 |
| Legal Trainee | 2 |
| Librarian | 16 |
| Mapping and Charting Officer | 3 |
| Petroleum Specialist 3 | 3 |
| Petroleum Specialist 4 | 5 |
| Current serving grade | Number of staff |
| Petroleum Specialist 5 | 2 |
| Principal Research Officer | 1 |
| Personal Secretary | 146 |
| Professional and Technology Officer | 1 |
| Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 3 | 8 |
| Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 4 | 13 |
| Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 5 | 1 |
| Research Officer | 1 |
| Senior Economic Assistant | 5 |
| Senior Examiner (Patents Office) | 1 |
| Senior Librarian | 9 |
| Senior Civil Service | 175 |
| Senior Engineering Inspector (Electricity) | 4 |
| Senior Executive Officer | 189 |
| Support Grade Band 1 | 25 |
| Support Grade Band 2 | 59 |
| Senior Information Officer | 16 |
| Science Management Trainee | 2 |
| Support Manager 3 | 7 |
| Scientific Officer | 3 |
| Senior Personal Secretary | 41 |
| Senior Profession and Technology Officer | 30 |
| Senior Research Officer | 4 |
| Senior Scientific Officer | 27 |
| Sandwich Course Student | 24 |
| Translator Grade 1 | 2 |
| Translator Grade II | 5 |
| Typing Manager | 4 |
| Typist | 60 |
| Total | 3,950 |