HC Deb 31 March 1999 vol 328 cc710-2W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will provide a breakdown, in numerical and percentage terms, of the ethnic origin, at 1 March, of(a) his private office, (b) Government special advisers, (c) his Policy Unit and (d) staff in total. [78512]

Mr. Kilfoyle

Information about the ethnic origin of civil servants is collected in Government Departments through voluntary, confidential questionnaires.

  1. (a)As at 1 March there were 7 staff of ethnic minority origin in the Department's Private Office. This represents 24 per cent. of staff in the Department's private office.
  2. (b)My answer to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone), 22 February 1999, Official Report, column 39, refers to this matter.
  3. (c)I do not have a policy unit.
  4. (d)Civil Service personnel statistics are collated and published annually for staff in post at 1 April by the Cabinet Office. Information for staff in total for 1 April 1998 is the latest available and is given in the table.
Number and percentage of ethnic minority staff in post at 1 April 1998
Department Ethnic minority staff % of staff with known ethnic origin
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 40 7.3
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 398 5.4
Cabinet Office 98 7.2
Charity Commission 71 12.8
Crown Prosecution Service 410 8.3
Culture, Media and Sport 33 9.9
Customs and Excise 1,485 6.8
Defence 1,312 2.0
Education and Employment 2,254 10.8
Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) 18 10.1
Environment, Transport and the Regions 857 7.0
Export Credits Guarantee Department 49 16.7
Foreign and Commonwealth Office 191 4.4
Friendly Societies, Registry of 36 26.9
Government Actuary 1— 8.7
Health 595 13.7
Health and Safety Executive 178 5.0
HM Prison Service 1,095 3.2
Home Office 1,138 12.4
Information, Central Office of 25 9.3
Inland Revenue 3,278 6.0
International Development 68 8.7
Intervention Board 67 8.0
Land Registry 384 4.9
Legal Secretariat 1 — 25.0
Lord Chancellor's Department 933 9.5
National Investment and Loans Office 5 18.5
National Savings 26 0.6
National Statistics, Office for 168 5.7
Northern Ireland Office 18 20.9
Office of Electricity Regulation 26 11.4
Office of Fair Trading 66 25.0
Office of Gas Supply 14 13.9
Office of the National Lottery 1— 16.0
Office of the Rail Regulator 9 7.4
Ordnance Survey 20 1.3
Public Records Office 11 12.1
Royal Mint 1— 1.1
Scottish Office 14 0.4
Other Scottish Departments 18 0.4
Security and Intelligence Services 14 0.3
Serious Fraud Office 32 21.1
Social Security 5,107 6.5
Trade and Industry 880 11.9
Treasury 103 13.1
Treasury Solicitors Department 45 15.0
Welsh Office (including OHCMI) 14 0.7
Total 21,615 5.7
1 less than 5 staff

Notes:

1. Number of non-industrial staff who responded to departmental surveys on ethnic origin

Source:

Cabinet Office: Mandate and Departmental returns