HC Deb 26 January 1995 vol 253 cc319-20W
Mrs. Maddock

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many employees for which his Department is responsible were women(a) in 1991, (b) in 1992, (c) in 1993 and (d) in 1994; and, of these, how many were (i) at grade 7 level, (ii) at grade 3 level, (iii) at executive officer level, (iv) at administrative officer level and (v) at administrative assistant level.

Mr. Hague

The information is in the table.

1991 1992 1993 1994
Total number of women 51,102 49,138 55,234 56,752
Grade 3 16 14 13 13
Grade 7 88 91 141 142
Executive officer 11,996 11,579 12,858 13,271

1991 1992 1993 1994
Administrative officer 25,610 24,899 29,286 30,398
Administrative assistant 8,098 7,608 7,821 7,510
Note: Permanent non-industrial staff on 1 April each year expressed as full-time equivalents.
Part-time staff are counted as half-units and totals are rounded to whole units.
1 The figures in the table do not include the following numbers of female Grade 3 staff who were on loan to other Departments: 1 in 1991; 2 in 1992; 2 in 1993 and 2 in 1994.