§ Mr. Philip Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many civil servants are employed by his Department in each functional job category; in each such category, how many are of each rank; and for each such rank, what are the maximum and minimum pay scales.
§ Mr. PattieCivilian staff in my Department are not generally managed on the basis of functional job categories and information is, therefore, not maintained in the form requested.
Some of the grades in the administration group are managed within functional specialisms and details of the numbers employed, by rank, as at 1 April 1982 are as follows: 195W
Finance Personnel Management ADP Supply Management Procurement and Other Posts Total Senior Executive Officer 184 218 133 224 179 938 Higher Executive Officer 621 613 466 622 502 2,824 Executive Officer 1,480 1,026 952 1,581 861 5,900 Total 2,285 1,857 1,551 2,427 1,542 9,662 A wide range of details of civilian numbers, including a functional analysis of the provision made in Estimates for United Kingdom-based and locally engaged staff overseas, is shown in section 5 of volume II of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982" (Cmnd. 8529—II).
As regards pay scales, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 8 July.—{Vol. 27, c. 210.]