§ Mrs. MaddockTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of those accepted for fast-stream entry for which his Department is responsible(a) in 1991, (b) 1992, (c) in 1993 and (d) in 1994 were women.
§ Miss WiddecombeInformation on 1991 and 1992 is contained in the Civil Service Commissioners' reports for those years, copies of which are available in the Library.
The numbers and percentage of women recruited by the Employment Department from the civil service fast stream recruitment programme in 1993 and 1994 are shown in the following table:
Year Number of women Percentage of women 1993 14 67 1994 7 58