§ Mr. VazTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil servants there are on each pay band in his Department. [8951]
§ Mr. StrawThe Home Office has not yet adopted a pay band system. The number of serving civil servants1 managed by the Home Office by grade equivalents is set out in the table. Although there is not as yet an agreed equivalency structure for all Prison Service grades, the following table is based on the current understanding.
Grade equivalency Home Office excluding Prison Service) Prison Service Total None 228 388 116 Administrative Assistants 1,949 6,085 8,034 Administrative Officers 2,573 24,511 27,084 Executive Officers 3,783 3,658 7,441 Higher Executive Officers 1,522 1,121 2,643 Senior Executive Officers 608 896 1,504 Grade 7s 442 381 823 Grade 6s 85 254 339 Non-Senior Civil Service Grades 2 to 5 417 556 73 Senior Civil Service 86 43 129 Total 11,109 37,093 48,202 1 For the Home Office (non-Prison-Service), "serving civil servants" refers to permanent non-industrial staff currently paid by the Home Office. It does not include staff on loan or secondment to other Government Departments or external bodies where those bodies pay. For the Prison Service, the figures include casuals. The Home Office (non-Prison Service) figures are those for 6 July 1997. The Prison Service figures are those for 30 June 1997. 2 Students on attachment to the Home Office and some other grades have no agreed grade equivalency. 3 Currently no grade has been provided. 4 Grades which were held to be equivalent to the old grades 2 to 4 but which have not been included in the senior civil service. These grades include HM inspectors. 5 Mainly comprising senior health care staff.