HC Deb 16 July 2001 vol 372 cc47-8W
Norman Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions of MI5 employees have been instigated in each year since 1980 for crimes where the maximum sentence is six months imprisonment or greater. [3138]

Mr. Blunkett

[holding answer 10 July 2001]: As far as is known, one, in 1983.

Norman Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of employees within MI5 are(a) of ethnic minority origin and (b) female; and what percentage apply within the senior grades, (i) for the latest year for which figures are available and (ii) for 1990. [3139]

Mr. Blunkett

[holding answer 10 July 2001]: Currently, 3.2 per cent. of employees of the Security Service are of ethnic origin, that is, not white European; all equivalent of senior civil service grades are white.

Females represent 46.6 per cent. of employees of the Security Service; and represent 13.8 per cent. at the equivalent of senior civil service grades.

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