§ Mr. CurryTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many male senior civil servants in his Department have been offered financial incentives to take early retirement in order to enable the promotion of officials who are female. [144306]
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 8 January 2001]: None. We have run one early retirement exercise recently. This was open to men and women, and both men and women have been offered early retirement as a result.