To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK Border Agency staff there were at civil service grade (a) 5, (b) 6 and (c) 7 on 1 January 2010. (317151)

The civil service grade 5 has been incorporated into the Senior Civil Service and no longer exists. The numbers of UK Border Agency staff, including temporary cover arrangements, on 1 January 2010 at (a) SCS are 79, (b) grade 6 are 187 and (c) grade 7 are 605. These numbers are full-time equivalents rounded to the nearest whole number.