To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what percentage of staff in her Department were over 60 years of age in each of the last three years. (145676)

The information is shown in the following table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many people aged (a) over 55 years of age and (b) over 60 years of age have been recruited by her Department in each of the last three years; and what percentage in each case this is of the number of new recruits in each year. (145710)

In the last three years the Department recruited one person over the age of 55 which represented 7 per cent. of those recruited in that year. No staff were recruited over the age of 60.