HC Deb 25 July 1968 vol 769 cc170-1W
Mr. Judd

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many coloured personnel are now serving in each of the branches of public service for which he has responsibility under the headings of catering, domestic, and other domestic grades, clerical, secretarial, machine and typing, executive and analogous grades, administrative and analogous grades, medical and nursing, paperkeeping and messengerial, prison officer, night patrol, statistical, technical and analogous grades, probation service, child care service, and police, respectively; in what rank or capacity they are serving; and what proportion of the total stall in each case they comprise.

Mr. Callaghan

The information about coloured personnel directly employed by the Home Office is as follows:

Coloured Staff Total Staff
Administrative and analogous grades NIL NIL
Catering, domestic and other industrial grades:
Craftsmen 19 420
Drivers, semi-skilled and unskilled workers 13 2,105
Stokers 10 350
Catering and domestic workers 12 962
Clerical, secretarial, machine and typing grades:
Clerical Officers 27 1,692
Clerical Assistants 13 572
Personal Secretaries 5 110
Typists 13 623
Teleprinter Operator 1 1
Machine Assistants 1 54
Executive and analogous grades:
Executive Officers 2 798
Immigration Officers 6 649
Interpreters 5 7
Medical and nursing grades:
Medical Officers 6 124
Nurses 21 97
Paperkeeper and messengerial grades:
Paperkeepers 3 124
Messengers/Porters 8 194
Prison Officers and night patrol grades:
Prison Officers 8 7,754
Civilian Instructional Officers 1 438
Night Patrols 3 489
Statistical grades:
Assistant Statisticians 1 4
Technical, Scientific and analogous grades:
Scientific Assistant 1 43
Draughtsmen 3 17
Wireless Technicians and allied grades 13 367
Records are not kept centrally of coloured persons employed in the probation service, child care service and police service and the information cannot be readily obtained.