Departmental Manpower

Danny Alexander
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many people aged (a) 30 to 39, (b) 40 to 49, (c) 50 to 59 and (d) 60 to 69 years have (i) applied for jobs, (ii) received interviews and (iii) gained (A) temporary and (B) permanent jobs in her Department in 2007.

Jim Fitzpatrick
The Department does not routinely collate age related data on job applicants and interviewees and this can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The following table shows provisional data on people given temporary and permanent jobs in the Department in 2007. These figures exclude DSA and VGA, which can only collate the data as requested at a disproportionate cost.

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|Age Group|Temporary|Permanent|
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|30 to 39 |76       |234      |
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|40 to 49 |57       |188      |
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|50 to 59 |57       |120      |
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|60 to 69 |8        |10       |
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|Total    |198      |552      |
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