Departmental Staff

Mrs. Mahon
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a table showing the number of (a) men and (b) women in his Department in each of grades (i) 1, (ii) 2, (iii) 3, (iv) 4, (v) 5, (vi) 6, (vii) 7, (viii) SEO, (ix) HEO, (x) administrative trainee, (xi) EO, (xii) CO and (xiii) CA.

Mr. Leigh
The information requested is in the table.-----------------------------
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|Grade 1                    |
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|Grade 2                    |
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|Grade 3                    |
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|Grade 4                    |
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|Grade 5                    |
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|Grade 6                    |
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|Grade 7                    |
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|SEC,                       |
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|HEO                        |
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|Administrative Trainee (AT)|
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|EO (excluding AT)          |
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|AO                         |
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|AA                         |
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These figures include 84 men and 890 women who are part-time.

Mrs. Mahon
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the total number of employees in his Department; and how many are (a) black and (b) disabled.

Mr. Leigh
The Department employs 13,056 staff, including industrial staff, of whom: (a) 1,111 are known to be black. 81 per cent. of the Department's employees have declared their ethnic origin.(b) 184 are known to be disabled. This figure includes both registered and unregistered disabled officers.These figures are based on staff employed at 1 April 1991.