§ Mr. Paul Deanasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will state the number of civil servants, by grade, employed by the Occupational Pensions Board.
§ Mr. DeakinsThe staff of the Occupational Pensions Board are civil servants assigned from my Department. Their numbers, by grade, are as follows:
2 Assistant Secretaries 1 Senior Principal 6 Principals 17 Senior Executive Officers 35 Higher Executive Officers 89 Executive Officers 26 Clerical officers 8 Clerical assistants 3 Personal secretaries In addition, the services of an assistant solicitor, a senior legal assistant and a principal information officer are made available to the Board as necessary, and certain support services are provided by the Superannuation Funds Office.