HC Deb 19 July 1995 vol 263 cc1290-2W
Ms Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department the number of(a) male and (b) female (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees. [35458]

Mr. Sackville

The information shows the position on 1 April 1995.

Male Female Full-time Part-time
UG1 3 0 3 0
UG2 7 0 7 0
UG3 20 7 25 2
UG4 19 8 27 0
UG5 145 56 184 17
UG6 73 48 118 3
UG7 371 192 514 49
SEO 246 100 332 14
AT/HEO(D) 21 10 31 0
Male Female Full-time Part-time
HEO 361 350 670 41
EO 389 733 1,062 60
AO 347 663 911 99
AA 89 190 245 34
YTS1 86 49 125 8
1 The youth treatment service grades do not easily equate to unified grades.

Staff out on secondment or on loan to other Government Departments, on maternity leave of more than three months, or on unpaid career breaks or study leave are excluded.

Mr. Donohoe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list(a) the number of (i) male and (ii) female employees, (b) the number of officials employed at each of the principal grades and the numbers and percentages of women employed at these grades and (c) the numbers of staff employed at administrative grades and the number and percentage of these staff that are women, in his Department and for each of its executive agencies for each year since 1985. [35688]

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table, which is available only from 1993 and not separately for each of the Department's agencies. Prior to 1993 the information was not collected in this format.

Total Female Female Per cent.
April 1993
UG1 3 0 0
UG2 9 0 0
UG3 24 6 25
UG4 27 9 33
UG5 221 80 36
UG6 122 45 37
UG7 559 169 30
SEO 390 101 26
AT/HEO(D) 24 13 54
HEO 728 374 51
EO 1,180 760 64
AO 1,209 747 62
AA 279 185 66
YTS1 149 58 39
Total 4,924 2,547 52
April 1994
UG1 3 0 0
UG2 9 1 11
UG3 28 7 25
UG4 25 10 40
UG5 207 63 30
UG6 110 39 35
UG7 540 184 34
SEO 364 114 31
AT/HEO(D) 23 9 39
HEO 720 350 49
EO 1,196 767 64
AO 1,125 765 68
AA 306 205 67
YTS1 165 70 42
Total 4,821 2,584 54
April 1995
UG1 3 0 0
UG2 7 0 0
Total Female Female Per cent.
UG3 27 7 26
UG4 27 8 30
UG5 201 56 28
UG6 121 48 40
UG7 563 192 34
SEO 346 100 29
AT/HEO(D) 31 10 32
HEO 711 350 49
EO 1,122 733 65
AO 1,010 663 66
AA 279 190 68
YTS1 135 49 36
Total 4,583 2,406 52
1 The youth treatment service grades do not easily equate to unified grades.

Staff out on secondment or on loan to other Government Departments, on maternity leave of more than three months, or on unpaid career breaks or study leave are excluded.

Mr. Donohoe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures his Department has taken to encourage the promotion of women into senior positions within his Department and its executive agencies. [35668]

Mr. Sackville

The Department, including its agencies, is committed to equality of opportunity for all its employees regardless of gender. To increase the proportion of women in senior positions, the Department has adopted a number of measures, including:

  • allowing career breaks and other flexible working patterns to enable women to combine their careers with domestic responsibilities;
  • providing help to parents with children, including nursery places and holiday play schemes;
  • providing, whenever possible, management development and training programmes which are suited to the needs of staff with domestic responsibilities for whom attendance at residential courses would not be possible;
  • ensuring that most job opportunities are advertised and candidates are invited to indicate whether they wish to be considered on full-time, part-time or job-share basis;
  • appointing whenever possible, at least, one woman on each selection/promotion board.

Additional information on progress made by the Department on Equal Opportunities generally is contained in the Department's 1993–94 equal opportunities progress report, copies of which are available in the Library.

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