§ Ms. RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many(a) black and (b) female prison officers, there were in 1963, 1970, 1980, 1990 and at the latest available date; and what proportion these figures form of the total prison staff establishment;
(2) how many (a) black and (b) female prison governors, there were in 1963, 1970, 1980, 1990 and at the latest available date; and what proportion these figures form of the total number of prison governors.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe Prison Service is currently in the process of conducting a voluntary survey of the ethnic origins of its staff, and until that survey is complete we shall not have comprehensive data. However, the tables set out the information currently available on staff who have recorded their ethnic origin as other than white.
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Prison officer grades Total number in officer grades Number of non-white officers Number of women number officers per cent. per cent. 1 February 1993 24,135 173 0.7 2,106 8.7 1 January 1990 20,710 26 0.1 1,711 8.3 1 January 1980 15,548 1 — 629 4.0 1 Figures not available.
Governor grades Total number in governor grades Number of non-white staff in governor grades Number of women officers in governor grades per cent. 1 February 1993 1,024 0 92 9.0 1 January 1990 884 0 86.5 9.8 1 January 1980 565 1 40 7.1 1 Figures not available. Figures for 1963 and 1970 are not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost, if at all. Figures for prison officers relate to unified grades from prison officer to principal officer.