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The figure for 2006-07 represents approximately 2.9 per cent. of total staff costs.

Information is not available for each salary band or, other than at disproportionate cost, prior to 2005-06. The figures provided do not include the Rent Service or the Health and Safety Executive.

7. Average age of employee and number of (i) women and (ii) men in each salary band

The following table shows the breakdown of staff at September 2007.

Civil service grade	Men	Women	Total	Average age (years)
SCS	189	104	293	46.10
Grade 6	359	262	621	45.75
Grade 7	811	660	1,471	42.53
SEO	1,255	1,444	2,699	44.10
HEO	3,011	4,540	7,551	42.96
EO	12,627	24,842	37,469	43.16
AO	15,049	34,024	49,973	40.79
AA	2,164	3,346	5,510	41.85
DWP Total	35,465	69,222	104,687	42.32
Notes: 1. The numbers shown are whole time equivalent (WTE). 2. The data do not include the Rent Service or the Health and Safety Executive. 3. Temporary staff are not included.

8. Ethnic composition

The following table shows the ethnic mix of DWP staff by grade as at September 2007.

Ethnic	SCS	Grade 6	Grade 7	SEO	HEO	EO	AO	AA
Asian and White	*	*	6	5	22	86	141	17
Asian (Bangladeshi)	*	*	*	*	12	94	189	17
Asian (Indian)	*	*	13	29	114	999	1,493	209
Asian (Other Origin)	*	*	*	11	22	230	335	41
Asian (Pakistani)	*	*	*	*	21	217	648	67
Black (African)	*	*	*	8	37	323	403	35
Black (Caribbean)	*	*	*	18	69	676	709	66
Black (Other Origin)	*	*	*	*	5	84	85	11
Black African and White	*	*	*	*	5	26	57	8
Black Caribbean and White	*	*	*	*	12	70	112	9
Chinese	*	*	*	*	5	38	83	11
Mixed Ethnicity (Other)	*	*	5	*	17	113	174	16
Other Ethnic Origin	*	*	*	11	50	245	318	37
White	220	486	1,171	2,224	6,197	29,850	4,231	4,988
Notes: 1. Numbers less than 5 have been replaced with (*) because we cannot disclose the information due to protocols which are in place to protect personal information. 2. The numbers in the table show the ethnicity of those staff that have declared their ethnic origin. Not all DWP employees have chosen to do so and therefore the numbers do not add up to the total DWP work force. 3. Temporary staff are not included. 4 The data do not include the Rent Service or the Health and Safety Executive.

Departmental Pay

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the value is of (a) pay supplements, (b) bonuses and (c) other incentive packages that are payable in his Department on the basis of geographic location; how many people are in receipt of each payment; and what the total cost to his Department of each payment was in 2006-07. [171192]

Mrs. McGuire: The information is as follows:

(a) DWP has four geographical pay areas:

national;

inner London;

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outer London; and

specified location zone (SLPZ).

The differential cost is not a standard amount but is calculated in each individual pay range.

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The current numbers of staff in post in each individual pay area, the April 2007 value of the average additional cost above national rates for each of the main grades and the estimated total additional cost in 2006-07 are contained in the following tables:

Table 1: Staff in post (April 2007) and additional average salary value above national rates in 2006-07
	SLPZ		Outer London		Inner London		Total staff
	Staff	£	Staff	£	Staff	£
Band A/AA	68	2,116	162	2,229	355	3,379	585
Band B/AO	827	2,318	2,550	2,431	3,730	3,850	7,107
Band C/EO	865	2,333	1,978	2,682	4,593	3,395	7,436
Band D/HEO	112	2,212	233	3,024	818	3,607	1,163
Band E/SEO	27	2,108	55	2,865	323	3,758	405
Band F/Grade 7	8	3,604	19	2,220	228	3,497	255
Band G/Grade 6	3	3,186	5	1,921	71	3,518	79
Total	1,910	—	5,002	—	10,118	—	17,030

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