§ Mr. JannerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many and what percentage of officers in grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 respectively and overall in his Department are women.
§ Mr. FormanThe number and percentage of women in post in each grade requested and the overall number in the Department are as follows:
Number of women in grade Per cent women Grade 1–3 0 0 Grade 4 3 33.3 Grade 5 25 21.9 Grade 6 113 28.3 Grade 7 50 28.9 Overall 1,565 55.4 The figures include staff in the Teachers Pensions Agency, of which the chief executive (grade 5) is a woman. They also include 386 HMI, of whom the majority together with their support staff will transfer to the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, which is to be constituted as a separate non-ministerial department from 1 September 1992.