Hansard

Departmental Manpower

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

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Justine Greening

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the average length of employment of staff of his Department at each Civil Service payband. (290570)

Mr. Woolas

The following table provides the average length of employment of staff in the Home Office and its agencies at each pay band as at 31 March 2009.

Pay band

Median length of service (years)as at 31 March 2009

A/AA

3.8

B/AO

4.82

C/EO

6.95

D/HEO

7.33

E/SEO

8.44

F/G7

7.1

G/G6

7.75

SCS

3.24

The average length of employment refers to the length of time employees have been working in the Home Office and its agencies rather than time in a particular pay band or career length of service.