§ Mrs. MaddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of public appointments made by his Department were held by women at the most recent date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. RedwoodThe most recent information about all appointments that I make is set out in "Appointments by the Secretary of State for Wales, 1 September 1994", which is available in the Library of the House: 26.8 per cent. of these appointments are held by women.
Those figures include a number of appointments to bodies that are not shown in the Cabinet Office publication, "Public Bodies". The current edition, published in 1993, shows that, of the appointments made by Welsh Office Ministers and included in "Public Bodies", 17 per cent. were held by women in September 1993. Comparable figures for 1994 are being collected and will be published in due course.