Departmental Female Staff

Mrs. Maria Miller
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what proportion of his Department's senior civil service staff have been women in each year since the Department was established.

Ms Diana R. Johnson
Information for the Department since its creation on 28 June 2007 is set out in the following table:

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|                        |Number of SCS women|Proportion (percentage)|
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|July 2007 to March 2008 |57                 |45                     |
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|April 2008 to March 2009|69                 |50                     |
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