Civil Servants (Ethnic Make-Up)

Mr. Drew
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the ethnic make-up was of civil servants in each Department on 1 April. [81934]

Mr. Kilfoyle
Information about the ethnic origin of civil servants is collected through voluntary, confidential questionnaires. Civil Service personnel statistics are collated and published annually for staff in post at 1 April by the Cabinet Office. The latest information, which is shown in the table, is for 1 April 1998.

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|Intervention Board                  |
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|Land Registry                       |
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|Legal Secretariat                   |
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|Lord Chancellor's Department        |
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|National Investment and Loans Office|
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|National Savings                    |
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|National Statistics, Office for     |
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|Northern Ireland Office             |
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|Office of Electricity Regulation    |
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|Office Of Fair Trading              |
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|Office Of Gas Supply                |
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|Office Of the National Lottery      |
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|Office of Rail Regulator            |
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|Ordnance Survey                     |
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|Public Record Office                |
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|Royal Mint                          |
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|Scottish Office                     |
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|Other Scottish Departments          |
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|Security and Intelligence Services  |
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|Serious Fraud Office                |
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|Social Security                     |
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|Trade and Industry                  |
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|Treasury                            |
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|Treasury Solicitors Department      |
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|Welsh Office                        |
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|Total                               |
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Source:

Cabinet Office, Mandate and departmental returns