§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many job vacancies there were at(a) administrative assistant or equivalent, (b) administrative officer or equivalent, (c) administrative executive officer, (d) higher executive officer, (e) senior executive officer, (f) grade 7 principal and (g) all positions above grade 7 level in his Department for jobs located in (i) London and (ii) the South-East between 1 April 2001 and 31 March; and what is the total employment for each civil service grade. [76549]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe number of job vacancies and the total employment for each civil service grade in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is as follows:
Responsibility level Vacancies Total staff Grades 6 and above 2 587 Grade 7 23 596 Senior executive officer 3 485 Higher executive officer 52 1,159 Executive officer 77 1,266 Administrative officer 93 1,037 Administrative assistant 216 360 Other 65 — Total non-industrial staff 531 5,490 The figure given for total staff is as at April 2001. We are unable to separate the data into regions for this time period without incurring disproportionate costs. The vacancy figures are for the time period of 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002.
The above figures include FCO Services.
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