HC Deb 15 November 1972 vol 846 cc162-5W
Mr. Bishop

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT those posts in the non-industrial Civil Service which were considered unsuitable and from which women were excluded as at June, 1970, and which are now considered suitable posts for women; and if he will continue to review and reduce the list of exclusions.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

The posts in the non-industrial part of the Home Civil Service which have been opened to women since June, 1970, are listed below. Considerable progress has been made and I will continue, in consulta-

Department Post
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food … Calf Certifying Officer.
Fatstock Technical Officer.
Investigation Officer.
Central Office of Information … … Installation Officers (Exhibitions Division).
Paperkeepers.
Civil Service Department … … Government Butler.
Foreign Service Allowance Inspector and Assistant.
Customs and Excise … … Customs and Excise Officers
Preventive Officer Class.
Irish Land Boundary Control Unit Staff.
Some Investigation Branch and Technical Branch Staff.
Coast Preventive Man.
Land Preventive Man.
Launch Service.
Watcher.
Watcher/Constable.
Deputy Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.
Deputy Receiver of Wrecks
Departmental posts in docks and warehouses.
Ministry of Defence … … All messengers.
Some Civilian Instructors.
Chef Instructors.
Civilian Assistant Operations Officers.
Security Officers (including ex Ministry of Av ation Supply Staff).
Most Meteorological Office posts.
Retired Officers serving with Air Training Corps
Reproduction Class Grade A
Diplomatic Wireless Service … … All Messengers.
Security Officers.
Stores Supervisory Grades.
Process and General Supervisory Grades.
Operator Technicians.
Telecommunications Technical Officers.
Engineer Technicians.
Radio Technicians.
Department of Education and Science … … Museum warders.
Department of the Environment … … Resident Governors (Tower of London).
Deputy Governors (Security).
Security Officer.
Jewel House Warder
Attendant Cleaner.
Yeoman warders.
Custodians in the Houses of Parliament.
Traffic Examiner Grades.
Forestry Commission … … Foresters.
Estate Clerks of Works.
All Civil and Mechanical Engineering Grades.
General Register Office … … District Examiner.
Assistant District Examiners
Government Communications Headquarters … Radio Operators.
Security Officers.
Department of Health and Social Security … Special Investigators (Supplementary Benefits).
Home Office … … Immigration Service.
Inland Revenue … … Stamping Officer Class
Land Registry … … All Messengers.
Lord Chancellor's Office … … Pursebearer and Trainbearer to the Lord Chancellor.
Clerks to the Pensions Appeal Tribunal.
Clerks to the Lands Tribunal.
Clerks to Judges of the High Court.
National Debt Office … … All Messengers.
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys … All Clerical Assistants.
Messengers.
Paperkeepers.
Ordnance Survey … … Cartographic Surveyors.
Reproduction Class A.

tion with my colleagues, to review the few posts from which women are still excluded with a view to reducing them.

Department Post
Scottish Office … … Engineer and Radio Officers on fishery cruisers and research ships.
Prison Service: Principal and Senior Welfare Officer.
Mental Health Inspector.
Motor Transport Officer.
Communications Officer.
Wireless Technicians.
Technical Officers.
Stationery Office … … Warehouse and Bookshop Manager.
Principal Transport Officer.
Printing Press and Bindery Management.
Supervisory posts in:
bookshops.
warehouses.
presses and binderies.
Department of Trade and Industry … … Marine Surveyors.
Inspectorate of ships provisions.
Marine Survey Assistants.
Mercantile Marine Assistants.
Regional Export Visiting Officers.
Posts in anti-dumping work.
Treasury … … Treasury Security Guard.

NOTE: This list excludes travelling senior photographer posts in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) which were closed to women in June, 1970, but are now open.

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