HC Deb 21 July 1989 vol 157 cc357-8W
Mr William Ross

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report to show for each grade in the Northern Ireland civil service the number and percentages of: (a) Roman Catholics, (b) Protestants and (c) others, showing the number and percentages of males and females in each category: and if he will indicate the percentage of each of those groupings of working age in Northern Ireland.

Mr Cope

The information requested by the hon. Gentleman is contained within the second report of the equal opportunities unit of the Northern Ireland Civil Service. The second report was published in December 1987 and shows the make-up of the Northern Ireland Civil Service by sex, religion and disability as at 1 January 1987.

Expenditure on lawyer agents by the Crown Prosecution Service
Region and area 21986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1 April to 30 June 1989
£ £ £ £
London and South East
12 Inner London1 871,409 2,042,664 2,076,722 582,052
14 North London 608,543 1,084,313 1,249,981 377,907
16 South London 332,188 753,574 1,001,331 174,136
22 Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire 191,973 531,293 510,139 102,068
42 Essex 62,950 290,970 291,529 89,815
52 Kent 92,363 320,268 323,332 83,470
Total 2,159,425 5,023,082 5,453,033 1,409,448
South and West
20 Avon/Somerset 99,406 343,084 381,728 84,291
34 Devon/Cornwall 74,821 182,834 160,449 44,937
36 Dorset/Hampshire 186,105 600,904 538,483 153,527
44 Gloucestershire/Wiltshire 67,516 218,738 196,144 33,147
48 South Wales 146,684 256,341 96,878 8,232
66 Sussex 123,943 298,478 346,318 93,595
68 Thames Valley 91,779 295,599 292,773 66,520
70 West Mercia 160,783 525,082 237,780 41,084
Total 951,037 2,721,360 2,250,551 525,333

Copies of the second report were placed in the Library on 17 December 1987.

The following table shows estimated aggregated figures (1985–87) of the religious affiliation of persons of working age in Northern Ireland, derived from the continuous household survey.

Males Females All
per cent. per cent. per cent.
Catholic 37.9 39.6 38.9
Protestant 57.8 57.8 57.8
Other or not stated 4.3 2.6 3.3