To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many and what percentage of employees, in each payband, in the quangos for which his Department is responsible, are of (a) Asian origin and (b) Afro-Caribbean origin. [8962]

The numbers employed are too small to make percentages by payband meaningful in those executive non-departmental public bodies sponsored by this Department and using civil service grades¹. Overall, staff of Asian origin represent 3.6 per cent., while those of Afro-Caribbean origin represent 2.9 per cent., of the 1,570 staff. These staff are found across the grades as follows:

Grade and equivalent	Number of staff of Asian origin	Number of Afro-Caribbean origin
Senior civil service grades	1	0
G6 and equivalent	3	0
G7	1	0
SEO	4	3
HEO	10	2

Grade and equivalent	Number of staff of Asian origin	Number of Afro-Caribbean origin
EO	19	14
AO	9	27
AA	2	1
1 Funding Agency for Schools, Education Assets Board, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Further Education Funding Council, Schools Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Equal Opportunities Commission, Teachers' Training Agency, National Council for Educational Technology, Investors in People UK Ltd.

Comparable data are not available from the other NDPBs. The latest figures for Remploy Ltd.–11,300 people—are:

Per cent.
Grade group	Afro-Caribbean black	Asian black
Shop floor grades	1	2
Staff grades	1	1
Management grades	0	0
Interworkers	1	1
Whole company	1	2

Recent available figures for the Construction Industry Training Board, with 900 staff, and the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board, with 40 staff, show that 0.4 per cent. of staff were Asian and 0.5 per cent. Afro-Caribbean; 1.35 per cent. of the Student Loans Company, with 295 staff in Glasgow are of ethnic minority origin and occupy supervisory and managerial grades. Statistics are not currently available for the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, with 282 staff and the Centre for Information and Language Teaching with 22 staff.

	Special schools			Other schools
Schools identified by OFSTED as requiring special measures during the academic year beginning	EBD	Other	Percentage	Total	Primary	Secondary	Percentage	Total
September 1994	2	3	0.4	5	32	20	0.24	52
September 1995	14	9	1.8	23	61	20	0.37	81
September 1996	12	16	2.3	28	117	26	0.65	143