§ Mrs. Ann CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 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. [104019]
§ Mr. ByersIn April 1999 the numbers of men and women employed in DTI Headquarters by age group were as follows:
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Age Men Women Total 16–19 1 5 6 20–24 36 41 77 25–29 204 247 451 30–34 414 450 864 35–39 486 356 842
Age Men Women Total 40–44 389 243 632 45–9 405 203 608 50+ 658 296 954 Total 2,593 1,841 4,434 The Department's personnel database was set up in 1985 and does not include data on staff who left the Department before that date; full data on the age profile of staff in 1979 is not therefore available. However, the annual publication, "Civil Service Statistics", provides a departmental breakdown of staff by gender and Service-wide data by age for that year. In addition the Equal Opportunities Data Summary 1998 provides average age by responsibility level and gender across the Service.
The figures exclude DTI staff in Government Offices and the DTI's Executive Agencies who have delegated responsibility for personnel issues.