women's Unit

HC Deb 07 February 2002 vol 379 cc1069-70W

Annabelle Ewing

To ask the Minister for Women how many staff have been assigned to the Women's Unit. [33058]

Ms Hewitt

[holding answer 4 February 2002]: The Women's Unit was created in 1998. Its staff for the first financial year of its existence (1998–99) was 45. The unit was renamed the Women and Equality Unit following last year's general election in order to recognise its new policy responsibilities across the United Kingdom for gender equality, co-ordination of sexual orientation policy and its sponsorship of the Equal Opportunities Commission. Its current staffing level stands at 63.