To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people granted (a) temporary part-time, (b) temporary full-time, (c) permanent part-time and (d) permanent full-time contracts of employment in his Department in each of the last three years were (i) male, (ii) female, (iii) registered disabled and (iv) aged 55 years or over. (143895)

This information is partially available from statistics published by the Cabinet Office in the annual Civil Service Statistics reports. The latest published statistics are for 1 April 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Links are provided for each of the three years to the following tables:

Entrants by Department and disability status

2002-03:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report2003/diversity_tables/table_af.xls

2003-04:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report2004/entrants_and_leavers/Table%20AF%20-%20final.xls

2004-05:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report2005/2005table_ae.xls

Entrants by Department and gender

2002-03:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2003/diversity_tables/table_ag.xls

2003-04:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/pubrications/xls/report_2004/entrants_and_leavers/Table%20AG%20-%20final.xls

2004-05:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2005/2005table_af.xls

Entrants by responsibility level, age and gender (breakdown by Department not available)

2002-03:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2003/diversity_tables/table_ah.xls

2003-04:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2004/entrants_and_leavers/Table%20AH%20-%20final.xls

2004-05:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2005/2005table_ag.xls

A further breakdown by permanent/temporary status and working pattern is not available from published sources.

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of staff in his Department are (a) male, (b) female, (c) registered disabled and (d) aged 55 or over. (143912)

This information is available from statistics published by the Cabinet Office in the annual Civil Service Statistics reports. The latest published statistics are for 1 April 2005.

Links are provided to the following tables:

Permanent staff in post for all staff and SCS level by gender:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report2005/table n.xls

Permanent staff in post for all staff and SCS level by disability status:

http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report2005/table p.xls

In addition, the Office for National Statistics has carried out an ad hoc analysis for permanent staff by Department aged 55 or over. In DEFRA, 13 per cent. of staff were aged 55 or over on 1 April 2005.