§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of employees in his Department; and how many are(a) black and (b) disabled.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe figures to which the hon. Member refers can be found in various reports published by the Treasury and the Office of the Minister for the Civil Service. These record that on 1 April 1991 the Home Office employed 41,994 non-industrial staff. Of those who responded to ethnic origin surveys carried out by the Department, 1,085 classified themselves as being of ethnic minority origin, representing 5.3 per cent. of the total number who responded. The Home Office employs 183 registered disabled persons, representing 0.4 per cent. of the total number of non-industrial staff.
§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 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. Kenneth BakerThe April 1991 figures for men and women in grades 1 to 4 and SEO to AA were included in Her Majesty's Treasury's "Civil Service Statistics". This did not include an analysis of grades 5 to 7 and AT/HEODs. The nearest equivalent figures for these grades are at December 1990, as follows:
Men Women Total Grade 5 70 16 86 Grade 6 80 5 85 Grade 7 394 91 485 AT/HEOD 6 12 18