Women

HC Deb 22 February 1971 vol 812 cc48-51W

Mrs. Joyce Butler

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list the posts in the Civil Service from which women are at present excluded because the work is considered unsuitable for them.

Mr. David Howell

The latest information available to the Civil Service Department relates to June, 1970. At that time departments informed the Civil

Department	Post
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food					…	Calf Certifying Officer
						Fatstock Technical Officer.
						Fishery Officer.
						Marine Staff.
						Investigation Officer.
Ministry of Aviation Supply			…	…	…	Security Officers.
Cabinet Office	…	…	…	…	…	Posts in Distribution Section.
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 Officers 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.
						Some departmental posts in docks and warehouses.
Ministry of Defence		…	…	…	…	Some messengers.
						Reproduction Class Grade A.
						Royal Corps of Transport Fleet Grades.
						Telecommunications Group B.A.O.R.
						Civilian Instructors.
						Chef Instructors.
						Civilian Assistant Operations Officers.
						Fire Service Officers Class.
						Security Officers(Investigating).
						Ministry of Defence Constabularies.
						Retired Officers serving with Air Training Corp.
						Staff employed by the Meteorological Office.
Diplomatic Wireless Service			…	…	…	Some Messengers.
						Security Officers.
						Stores Supervisory Grades.
						Process and General Supervisory Grades.
						Operator Technicians.
						Telecommunications Technical Officers.
						Engineer Technicians.
						Radio Technicians.
Department of Education and Sciense					…	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 House 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 (Supplementart Benefits).
Home office	…	…	…	…	…	Inspectors of Constabulary.
						Inspectors of Fire Service.
						Certain posts in the police and fire service colleges and training establishments.
						Immigration service.
						Certain posts in male penal establishments.

Service Department that women were excluded from the following posts in the non-industrial Civil Service because the work was considered unsuitable for them;

Department	post
Imperial War Museum				…	…	…	Museum Warders.
Inland Revenue			…	…	…	…	Stamping Officer Class.
Land Registry		…	…	…	…	…	Some 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				…	…	…	Some messengers.
National Portrait Gallery				…	…	…	Museum warder.
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys						…	Some Clerical Assistants.
							Messengers.
							Paperkeepers.
Ordnance Survey			…	…	…	…	Professional Survey Offcers.
							Cartographic Surveyours.
							Reproduction Class A.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England).							Travelling senior Photographer posts.
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					…	…	Inspectors of Mines.
							Inspector of Aircraft Accidents.
							Fire Service Officer posts.
							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.
Wallace Collection			…	…	…	…	Warders.