§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many civil servants, broken down by grade, there 1125W are in the Department and the agencies for which the Department is responsible; and what the figures were in January 1997. [150268]
Responsibility level (grade) Department of Health NHS Estates Agency NHS Pensions Agency Medicines and Health Care Regulatory Authority NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency Total number of staff Senior Civil Service 265.3 3 1 71.9 10 351.2 Level 6 160.8 22 2 55.3 12 252.1 Level 7 527.9 62 2 73.6 74.6 740.1 Senior Executive Officer 141.1 9 9 74.1 8 241.2 Higher Executive Officer 738.9 24.8 22.8 100.6 139.5 1,026.6 Executive Officer 603.3 25.6 62.8 153.9 45.3 890.9 Administrative Officer 413.2 11.5 144.5 111.2 16.8 697.2 Administrative Assistant 43.7 1.7 14.3 17.8 4.2 81.7 Notes:
1. The information in the table represents staff in post at 1 October 2003 and is the Mandate data provided to the Cabinet Office; the published data may vary Similar information for January 1997 is not available.
2. In the publication Civil Service Statistics 1997, Table 1A, the total number of staff in post 1 April 1997 in the Department of Health was 4,696, 1,013 of whom worked in the Department's agencies.