§ Mr. Kilfedderasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what arrangements have been agreed between the Civil Service Commission and the Fair Employment Agency to investigate the religious composition of the Northern Ireland Civil Service and whether he will arrange for the details to be recorded in the Official Report.
§ Mr. RossiEach Department in the Northern Ireland Civil Service is providing the Fair Employment Agency with a list of its staff showing their names, forenames and ranks, the schools they have attended—where these are recorded—whether they were born outside Northern Ireland and whether they became civil servants as a result of the reorganisation of local government.
The Fair Employment Agency has excluded industrial civil servants, security guards and members of the prison service and the civilian search unit from the scope of the investigation. Civil servants born and educated outside Northern Ireland and those who entered the Civil Service as a result of the reorganisation of local government are being identified so that the agency may consider how they should be categorised in the assessment of the results of the investigation.