Civil Service: Women Baroness Miller of Hendon asked Her Majesty's Government: How many women are members of the senior Civil Service (SCS) in each government department; and what percentage of each department's total number of members of the SCS that represents. [HL5200] Lord Davies of Oldham The number of women in the senior Civil Service (SCS) in each government department and the percentage of the total number of each department's SCS who are women (as at October 2007) are set out in the following table: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Current department |Number of Women|% of Senior Civil Servants| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Assets Recovery Agency |1 |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cabinet Office |54 |35 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Central Office of Information |4 |31 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Charity Commission |5 |42 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service |14 |40 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Crown Prosecution Service |12 |36 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform |62 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Children, Schools and Families |46 |42 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Communities and Local Government |68 |48 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Culture, Media and Sport |8 |24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |51 |27 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills |15 |29 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for International Development |34 |36 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Transport |44 |24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department for Work and Pensions |107 |37 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department of Health |154 |40 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Estyn (HM Inspectorate for Education and Training in Wales)|4 |100 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Export Credits Guarantee Department |2 |14 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Food Standards Agency |14 |38 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Foreign and Commonwealth Office |12 |30 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Government Communications Headquarters |5 |13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Government Offices for The Regions |31 |47 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Health and Safety Executive |12 |24 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate |1 |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HM Revenue and Customs |106 |25 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |HM Treasury |35 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Home Office |54 |30 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Land Registry |11 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ministry of Defence |28 |11 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ministry of Justice |77 |34 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National Archives |3 |50 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National Savings and Investments |2 |22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |National School of Government |6 |55 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) |1 |13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Northern Ireland Office |4 |21 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office for National Statistics |13 |26 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office for Standards In Education |13 |54 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office of Fair Trading |10 |31 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office of Gas and Electricity Markets |6 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office of Government Commerce |10 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Office of Rail Regulation |5 |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ordnance Survey |2 |40 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Parliamentary Counsel Office |17 |39 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Postal Services Commission |2 |33 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office |2 |25 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Scottish Executive |85 |34 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Serious Fraud Office |3 |27 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Treasury Solicitor’s Department |32 |45 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Water Services Regulation Authority (Ofwat) |3 |43 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Welsh Assembly Government |50 |34 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |1340 |32 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Data are based on departmental returns and where applicable reflect numbers in post at October 2007, irrespective of funding arrangements. It excludes some civil servants who work at a senior level, such as senior diplomatic and military personnel (source: Cabinet Office SCS database). The next diversity strategy for the Civil Service, Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity—a Strategy for the Civil Service, was launched on 17 July 2008 and includes new diversity targets for the SCS: 39 per cent of the senior Civil Service to be women; 34 per cent of top management posts to be held by women; 5 per cent of the senior Civil Service to be minority ethnic staff; and 5 per cent of the senior Civil Service to be disabled people. The aim is to reach these targets within five years, with a stretch target of doing so within three years, and we will publish progress against them every six months. These targets will be underpinned by diversity targets for the SCS in each government department, as well as for their feeder grade populations and grades below where there is under-representation in particular groups.