HC Deb 12 January 2000 vol 342 cc182-3W
Mrs. Ann Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many(a) men and (b) women in each of the standard age groups were employed in his Department in (i) 1979 and (ii) 1999. [104023]

Mr. Mandelson

The figures for 1999 are as follows:

Age Female Male Total
16–20 14 3 17
21–25 77 58 135
26–30 185 156 341
31–35 266 337 603
36–40 207 509 716
41–45 172 580 752
46–50 94 629 723
51–55 114 479 593
56–60 53 168 221
60–65 25 13 38
Total 1,207 2,932 4,139

Note:

Figures include Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Prison Service staff.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide comparable figures for 1979. For the smaller Home Civil Service Group of the NIO, the annual Civil Service Statistics publication provides a departmental breakdown of staff by gender for both years and Service-wide information by age.