HC Deb 03 March 1999 vol 326 cc746-7W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will provide a breakdown in(a) numerical and (b) percentage terms of the ethnic origin as of 1 May 1998 to 31 December 1998, of civil servants at each grade; and if he will further break down those of ethnic minority origin at each grade in (i) numerical and (ii) percentage terms into (1) Indian, (2) Pakistani, (3) Bangladeshi, (4) Chinese and (5) other and mixed Asian. [73695]

Mr. Kilfoyle

Provisional information at 1 October 1998, from Mandate, the Cabinet Office's personnel database, is set out in the table. It is not directly comparable to the information in the recently publishedEqual Opportunities in the Civil Service Data Summary which is based on staff in post at 1 April 1998. The table excludes staff in departments who do not provide data to Mandate. However, both the Data Summary and the table show that 5.7 per cent. of all staff were from ethnic minority groups.

Ethnic origin of non-industrial Civil Servants1 in post by responsibility level2 at 1 October 19983
Number
SCS G6 G7 SEO HEO EO AO AA Total4
White 2,731 3,757 13,739 17,771 39,786 82,502 136,851 51,828 349,713
Ethnic minority 48 107 356 406 1,123 4,445 10,624 4,117 21,237
of which:
Black 10 24 66 74 341 1,644 4,244 1,588 7,998
Asian 32 65 218 258 606 2,381 5,704 2,329 11,595
Indian 16 31 108 102 275 1,192 3,036 1,177 5,938
Pakistani 5— 12 24 24 48 222 642 356 1,329
Bangladeshi 5— 5— 5 8 12 51 224 102 405
Asian-East African 5— 5— 33 57 138 497 861 253 1,847
Chinese 5— 5— 18 23 36 107 189 77 455
Other Asian 6 15 30 44 97 312 752 364 1,621
Other ethnic groups 6 18 72 74 176 420 676 200 1,644
Total6— 2,779 3,864 14,095 18,177 40,909 86,947 147,475 55,945 370,950
Ethnic groups as a percentage of responsibility1 level at 1 October
Percentage
SCS G6 G7 SEO HEO EO AO AA Total4
White 98.3 97.2 97.5 97.8 97.3 94.9 92.8 92.6 94.3
Ethnic minority 1.7 2.8 2.5 2.2 2.7 5.1 7.2 7.4 5.7
of which:
Black 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.8 1.9 2.9 2.8 2.2
Asian 1.2 1.7 1.5 1.4 1.5 2.7 3.9 4.2 3.1
Indian 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.7 1.4 2.1 2.1 1.6
Pakistani 5— 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.4
Bangladeshi 5— 5— 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1
Asian-East African 5— 5— 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5
Chinese 5— 5— 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Other Asian 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.7 0.4
Other ethnic groups 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4
Total6— 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
1Excludes staff in Departments who do not provide data to Mandate.
2Responsibility levels are an approximate assignment of personnel to a level of seniority broadly equivalent to the former service wide grades. As departments restructure grades, it is increasingly difficult to assign certain posts to a precise responsibility level. This accounts for apparent fluctuations in the numbers and percentages at some levels.
3Information at 1 October 1998 is provisional and may be amended.
4Total includes staff with unknown responsibility level.
6Staff who responded to departmental surveys on ethnic origin.
7Less than 5 in group and less than 0.2 per cent. of responsibility level.

Source:

Cabinet Office—Mandate