HC Deb 14 July 1999 vol 335 cc236-7W
Mr. Alasdair Morgan

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will list the number and percentage of civil servants employed at each grade in(a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) London, (d) the South East of England, (e) Wales, (f) Northern Ireland and (g) the United Kingdom in total at the latest available date. [90861]

Mr. Kilfoyle

Numbers and percentages of staff in the Home Civil Service in the areas and responsibility levels' specified are set out in tables 1 and 2. The full detail requested is not available for all staff. However, estimates covering 97 per cent. of permanent non-industrial staff in the Home Civil Service are set out in tables 3 and 4.

1 Responsibility levels are an approximate assignment of staff to a level of seniority broadly equivalent to the former service-wide grades.

Table 1: Staff in the Home Civil Service, by responsibility level—April 1998, UK
Level Staff numbers
Permanent non-industrial 430,460
of whom:
Senior Civil Service 3,720
Level 6–7 21,130
SEO/HEO 70,060
EO 105,070
AO 164,040
AA 66,440
Permanent industrial 32,800
Casual staff 17,670
All staff 480,930

Source:

Civil Service Statistics

Table 3: Civil servant numbers by grade and area. Permanent, non-industrial civil servants—April 1998
Scotland England London Rest of South East Wales Northern Ireland UK1
EO 11,530 82,780 16,960 12,990 5,310 780 105,070
AO 16,080 133,930 21,900 18,470 9,950 1,150 164,040
AA 7,560 52,320 9,230 7,020 4,540 1,010 66,440
All grades1 42,320 348,900 72,690 50,090 23,240 3,530 430,360
1 Includes staff in departments not on Mandate database

Source:

Mandate

Grade profile of each area. Permanent, non-industrial civil servants—April 1998
Percentage
Scotland England London Rest of South East Wales Northern Ireland UK1
Senior Civil Service 0.6 0.8 2.5 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.9
Level 6–7 3.3 4.9 9.5 4.4 3.5 2.4 4.9
SEO/HEO 12.8 16.2 21.8 18.4 10.6 14.1 16.3
EO 27.3 23.7 23.3 25.9 22.8 22.1 24.4
AO 38.0 38.4 30.1 36.9 42.8 32.4 38.1
AA 17.9 15.0 12.7 14.0 19.5 28.5 15.4
1 Includes staff in departments not on mandate database

Source:

Mandate and Civil Service Statistics