HC Deb 26 June 1992 vol 210 c338W
Mr. Janner

To 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. Forman

The 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.