§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his estimate of the number of(a) Roman Catholic and (b) Protestants in each of the following grades (i) administrative assistants, (ii) administrative officers, (iii) executive officers grade 2, (iv) executive officers grade 1, (v) staff officers in each of the following Department of Health and Social Services offices: (1) Strabane, (2) Omagh, (3) Londonderry, (4) Lisnakelly, (5) Limavady, (6) Coleraine and (7) Magherafelt.
§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 13 February 1990]: The Northern Ireland Civil Service has an equal opportunities monitoring system which contains information on the sex, religious affiliation and disability of its staff. Disclosure of information on the religious affiliation of Northern Ireland Civil Service staff is governed by a code of practice which stipulates that no statistical summaries will be produced which fall outside the categories of analyses agreed with the equal opportunities Whitley committee.
The most recent agreed analyses were published in October 1989 in the third report of the Northern Ireland Civil Service equal opportunities unit; a copy of that report was placed in the Library.