To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the Civil Service are (a) male, (b) female, (c) black and minority ethnic male and (d) black and minority ethnic female. (171380)

[holding answer 4 December 2007]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 December 2007:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what proportion of the Civil Service are (a) male, (b) female, (c) BME male and (d) BME female. I am replying in her absence. (171380)

Statistics on the gender of civil servants are published every quarter in table 6 of the Public Sector Employment First Release. The latest published statistics are for June 2007.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/pse0907.pdf

More detailed diversity statistics, including statistics on gender and ethnic origin are published in Civil Service Statistics, an on-line article available from the National Statistics website.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=1885

The latest period for which the statistics are available is the year to September 2006.