Civil Servants (Ethnic Make-Up)

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the ethnic make-up was of civil servants in each Department on 1 April. [81934]

Information about the ethnic origin of civil servants is collected through voluntary, confidential questionnaires. Civil Service personnel statistics are collated and published annually for staff in post at 1 April by the Cabinet Office. The latest information, which is shown in the table, is for 1 April 1998.

Number of staff in Departments by Ethnic Groups ¹ at 1 April 1998
Department	White	Black	Asian	Other ethnic groups	Total with known ethnic origin
Intervention Board	774	22	40	5	841
Land Registry	7,500	68	295	21	2,884
Legal Secretariat	6	²—	0	0	10
Lord Chancellor's Department	8,922	462	405	66	9,855
National Investment and Loans Office	22	²—	²—	²—	30
National Savings	4,217	11	13	²—	4,240
National Statistics, Office for	2,798	76	72	20	2,966
Northern Ireland Office	68	13	5	0	86
Office of Electricity Regulation	203	10	16	0	229
Office Of Fair Trading	198	22	44	0	264
Office Of Gas Supply	87	6	7	²—	100
Office Of the National Lottery	21	²—	²—	0	30
Office of Rail Regulator	113	6	²—	0	120
Ordnance Survey	1,511	²—	10	6	1,570
Public Record Office	80	6	²—	²—	90
Royal Mint	361	²—	²—	0	361
Scottish Office	3,118	²—	10	0	3,128
Other Scottish Departments	4,109	6	8	²—	4,130
Security and Intelligence Services	4,701	6	6	²—	4,720
Serious Fraud Office	120	17	15	0	152
Social Security	73,828	1,671	3,059	377	78,935
Trade and Industry	6,544	455	367	58	7,424
Treasury	686	45	50	8	789
Treasury Solicitors Department	256	28	15	²—	300
Welsh Office	2,101	²—	9	²—	2,120
Total	356,140	8,117	11,716	1,782	377,755
¹Non-industrial staff who responded to departmental surveys on ethnic origin
²In order to preserve confidentiality number withheld and total for department rounded to nearest 10 as there are less than five staff in this group

Source:

Cabinet Office, Mandate and departmental returns

Volume 330: debated on Tuesday 27 April 1999