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Departmental Manpower

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many (a) men and (b) women of each civil service grade are employed by his Department. [172737]

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Mr. Thomas: The Department for International Development (DFID) employs both home civil servants (HCS) and locally engaged staff (known as staff appointed in country or SAIC), who work in our more than 60 overseas offices. SAIC are not civil servants. They are employed on local terms and conditions of service, but within the same broad grading structure.

Gender data are supplied by staff on a voluntary basis. The numbers who have chosen not to provide this information are shown as N/D (“not declared”). The following table shows the numbers by gender and grade as at the end of November 2007.

	HCS			SAIC
Grade	Men	Women	Total	Men	Women	N/D	Total
SCS	61	32	93	0	0	0	0
A1	153	83	236	3	1	0	4
A2	232	217	449	19	18	4	41
A2(L)	56	71	127	38	35	5	78
B1D	30	42	72	0	0	0	0
B1	142	115	257	33	50	10	93
B2	101	147	248	82	117	25	224
C1	69	141	210	78	143	25	246
C2	14	11	25	58	17	3	78
C3	n/a	n/a	n/a	37	9	1	47
C4	n/a	n/a	n/a	1	2	0	3
D1	n/a	n/a	n/a	21	0	9	30
D2	n/a	n/a	n/a	10	0	0	10
D4	n/a	n/a	n/a	3	2	0	5
Total	858	859	1,717	383	394	82	859
n/a = not applicable

Departmental Pay

Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many and what proportion of his Department's staff are employed within each salary band; what the title and role of each position within each salary band is; and for each salary band what the (a) bonus structure, (b) retirement provision, (c) expenses provision, (d) total expenses incurred in each of the last 10 years, (e) average age of employee, (f) number of (i) women and (ii) men and (g) ethnic composition is. [171406]

Mr. Thomas: The Department for International Development (DFID) employs both home civil servants (HCS) and locally engaged staff (known as staff appointed in country or SAIC), who work in more than 60 overseas offices. SAIC are employed on local terms and conditions. Salaries paid to SAIC vary from country to country to reflect conditions in the local labour markets.

DFID's HCS and SAIC workforce is structured around a grade hierarchy, rather than by salary band. There are numerous job titles and roles that fall within each grade, covering administrative, technical and advisory staff, and it is not therefore possible to assign staff numbers to each title or role.

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As of the end of November 2007, the number of staff by grade and those as a proportion of the total are as shown in the following tables.

Grade	Home civil servants	Staff appointed in country	Total	Percentage of total by grade
SCS	93	0	93	3.6
A1	236	4	240	9.3
A2	449	41	490	19.0
A2(L)	127	78	205	8.0
B1D	72	0	72	2.8
B1	257	93	350	13.6
B2	248	224	472	18.3
C1	210	246	456	17.7
C2	25	78	103	4.0
C3	n/a	47	47	1.8
C4	n/a	3	3	0.1
D1	n/a	30	30	1.2
D2	n/a	10	10	0.4
D3	n/a	0	0	0
D4	n/a	5	5	0.2
Total	1,717	859	2,576	100
n/a= not applicable

(a) There are separate bonus structures for staff in the Senior Civil Service (SCS) and those at other grades. All bonus payments are non-consolidated for pay purposes, and non-pensionable. The approximate proportion of the overall pay bill allocated to bonus payments made to HCS in 2006-07 was 1.4 per cent.

(b) The majority of HCS are eligible to join the civil service pensions schemes, and retirement benefits are paid in accordance with the rules of those schemes. Further information is available from the civil service pensions website, at

www.civilservice-pensions.gov.uk

SAIC are not eligible to join the civil service pensions schemes. Any superannuation arrangements for this group are determined locally, based on local practice and feasibility.

(c) All staff are entitled to seek reimbursement of necessary out-of-pocket expenses. HCS based overseas are also entitled to receive an allowance to compensate for any additional cost of everyday goods and services, which ensures that their income has the same purchasing power as in the UK.

(d) The payment of expenses is administered independently by each of our departments and offices overseas, and the total value of those payments incurred in the last 10 years could only be obtained and collated at disproportionate cost.

(e) The average age of our employees, the (f) number of women and men, and (g) ethnic composition is shown in the following tables, but age, gender and ethnicity are all provided by staff on a voluntary basis. The numbers who have chosen not to provide this information is shown as “N/D”—not declared.

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Home Civil Servants
		Gender		Ethnicity
Grade	Average Age	Men	Women	Asian	Black	Mixed	White	N/D	Other	Total
SCS	47	61	32	2	2	2	69	16	2	93
A1	47	153	83	5	2	5	188	32	4	236
A2	40	232	217	17	6	10	301	111	4	449
A2(L)	44	56	71	6	4	1	93	21	2	127
B1D	29	30	42	2	4	0	26	40	0	72
B1	42	142	115	14	8	10	192	31	2	257
B2	41	101	147	12	11	4	186	32	3	248
C1	45	69	141	4	16	4	144	40	2	210
C2	52	14	11	2	3	0	17	3	0	25
Total	42	858	859	64	56	36	1,216	326	19	1,717

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