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Civil Servants

Volume 298: debated on Monday 21 July 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many civil servants there are on each pay band in his Department. [8960]

The following information covers non-industrial staff in my Department and its agencies at 1 April 1997. The Health and Safety Executive has a pay band structure, but still with some non-banded grades. The senior civil service has nine pay bands, which are

Summary of DETR staff numbers at 1 April 1997
Grade equivalentDETR centralDETR staff in Government officesAgenciesTotalPay bandHSE
Senior civil service1862548259Senior CS including Band 047
Grade 67911256346Band 196
Grade 7524100342966Band 2481
SEO3271085701,005Band 31,026
HEO7061571,1341,997Band 4462
EO7962232,7583,777Band 5409
AO1,0532293,1794,461Band 6 higher809
AA3311322,9763,439Band 6 lower671
Non-banded grades217
Total4,00298511,26316,2504,218