Departmental Staff

Mrs. Mahon
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Alan Clark
The following full-time equivalent numbers of men and women in grade level equivalents grade 1 to AA were employed in the Ministry of Defence on 1 April 1991: -------------
|Grade      |
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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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|SEO        |
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|HEO        |
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|EO (Note 1)|
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|AO (Note 2)|
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|AA (Note 2)|
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|Totals     |
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Note 1. Five male administration trainees are included in the EO grade level equivalent figures.Note 2. Formerly titled CO and CA respectively.-------------------------------------------
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|Military salary: all ranks               |
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|Senior officers (Major General and above)|
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Mrs. Mahon
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the total number of employees in his Department; and how many are (b) black and (b) disabled.

Mr. Alan Clark
The information as at 1 January 1992, based on voluntary surveys, is: ---------------------------------------------
|Staff                                      |
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|Total staff (industrial and non-industrial)|
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|Total Respondents to ethnic minority survey|
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|Self-identified ethnic minority staff      |
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|Registered Disabled staff                  |
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