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| Department | Pay Grade
| First degree in Engineering
| First degree in Science
| Number of Chartered Engineers
| Comments |
| Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| BERR does not consistently record or retain data on how many civil servants in the Department have a first degree in engineering or science. BERR does have chartered engineers on its staff, who are very much valued for their professional skills and supported in maintaining chartered status but, their numbers are not recorded centrally. BERR is introducing a new online HR system during 2009, which will allow staff to record and maintain their qualification information (if they choose to).
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| Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF)
| all | 0
| 0 | 0
| DCSF's HR system "Trent" holds information on qualifications, where employees have provided that information. Those records show that: no current employees have recorded a first degree in engineering or science, but there may be under-reporting.
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| | DCSF is not aware of any employees holding chartered engineer status. Although the department recently surveyed its employees on skills and professional qualifications, this did not cover engineering.
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| Department for Communities & Local Government (CLG)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| CLG does not hold this information. Its HR system does not currently hold data on the qualifications and Professional grouping of individual staff members. However it has recently made changes so that this information can be captured in the future. CLG will be asking all staff to complete this information during 2009 in order to meet the targets set out by Government Skills in the Government Skills Strategy.
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| Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| DCMS is unable to provide any accurate figures. The underpinning reasons for this are:
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| | -DCMS has operated a predominantly competence based recruitment process, so the number of qualifications featured in application forms is minimal;
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| | -Historically, there was no process for transferring details of qualifications from people's application forms onto a database that is searchable and which would provide this data; and
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| | -Self service entry of qualifications information by staff has been difficult due to the capability of the HR system, so information is patchy and unreliable at best. A project has been commissioned that will increase DCMS's capability in this regard.
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| Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| Machinery of Government changes too recent for DECC to hold this information.
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| Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| Defra does not currently capture and hold data centrally on qualifications. However, it is working closely with the Cabinet Office to define what qualifications data are needed. A clear understanding of the requirement will be important here given the very long list of possible qualifications.
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| | Defra ensures that, before appointments to specific roles are made, its vacancy managers check that individual candidates have the required skills and, where appropriate, also hold formal qualifications or memberships of appropriate bodies (eg chartered through the Institution of Civil Engineers).
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| | To help ensure it gets the best people for each post, Defra has developed a new system called the Flexible Staff Resourcing system (FSR), which records top level skills, subject specialisms and competencies. All staff are required to complete their FSR profile. However, at present qualifications are not recorded systematically.
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| | Defra does not hold data on the number of staff who are chartered engineers. However, Defra's key engineering capability resides in its Water Directorate and it holds information on the qualifications and chartered status of engineering staff in this group. This is outlined below:
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| | Grade 7-two engineering posts:
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| | Two with first degree in Civil Engineering (both also have Masters degrees in an engineering discipline).
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| | Two Chartered Engineers, both chartered through the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).
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| | SPTO-three posts in total:
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| | Three with first degree in Civil Engineering (one of these also holds an MBA).
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| | Three Chartered Engineers, all chartered through the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). One is also a Grade 1 European Engineer (EurIng) through FEANI.
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| Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
| all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| Defra's Laboratory Agencies-Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA), Central Science Laboratory (CSL) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)-also have engineers. Defra does not hold data on qualifications and chartered status for agency staff either.
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| Department for International Development (DfID)
| SCS-G5 A1 | 3 17
| 9 37 | n/k n/k
| The figures provided reflect information that has been provided by individuals on a voluntary basis through DfID's HR records system and therefore may be incomplete. The system does not record professional memberships or affiliations, so DfID have not been able to identify Chartered Engineers amongst their staff.
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| A2 A2(L) |
14 2 | 64 8
| n/k n/k | The figures provided reflect civil servants that have identified themselves as having first degrees in science. Apart from those exceptions listed below, DfID have excluded all other classifications of degree because they could not specifically identify that they related to science or engineering. Figures provided therefore:
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| B1-D (Fast Stream)
| 0 | 7
| n/k | -include staff with a BSc or an MSc (if no lower degree is recorded);
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| B1 | 1
| 15 | n/k
| -exclude any staff with a BSc in a social science qualification or those with a BSocSc;
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| B2 C1 |
8 1 | 22 3
| n/k n/k | -exclude any staff with a BSc if their qualification contained economics in the title, and those with an MSc (if their MSc qualification contained economics in the title and DfID could not identify that they had a first degree in science or engineering).
Where the grades are not shown this means that DfID did not have anyone providing information on a science/engineering degree on its HR system.
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| Department for Transport (DfT) | PB3 (EO/ SO/ PTO)
| 1 | n/k
| DfT does not hold this information at present. Plans are being developed, however, to collect more information on this in the future.
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| PB4 (Fast Stream)
| 6 |
| The data provided here is based on DfT responses to the recent GO-Science Community of Interest survey, which was voluntary; therefore figures are likely to be under-reported.
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| Department for Transport (DfT) | PB4 (HEO/ HSO/ HPTO)
| 9 |
| In total there were 71 respondents: 30 indicated a science background, 35 an engineering background and 6 a joint science and engineering background.
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| PB5 (SEO/ SSO/ SPTO)
| 21 |
| 43 people indicated that they were members of professional bodies, but this included science as well as engineering.
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| PB6 (Grade 7)
| 25 |
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| PB7 (Grade 6)
| 6 |
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| SCS | 2
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| Other (n/k)
| 1 |
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| Department of Health | all
| n/k | n/k
| n/k | The Department of Health (DH) does not collate that information centrally, as it is not business critical.
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| | The Chief Scientist does, however, maintain a self-nominated list of staff who have science backgrounds and who wish to receive periodic information of interest to scientists.
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| Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS)
| EA | 0
| 0 | 0
| Figures relate to DIUS only, and exclude staff in its Executive Agencies.
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| EO | 0
| 2 | 0
| The return is based on information that staff have made available voluntarily and therefore does not constitute comprehensive data.
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| HEO | 1
| 10 | 0
| Given the lack of a clear definition of a science degree, there are likely to be some inconsistencies in the data provided.
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| HEO (D) |
0 | 5
| 0 | Staff who have indicated that they are chartered engineers all have engineering degrees. Therefore each individual features in both lists.
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| SEO | 0
| 11 | 0
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| Grade 7 |
2 | 33
| 1 | |
| Grade 6 |
1 | 6
| 1 | |
| SCS PB1 |
2 | 8
| 2 | |
| SCS PB2 |
1 | 4
| 0 | |
| SCS PB3 |
0 | 1
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| Perm Sec |
0 | 1
| 0 | |
| Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) |
all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| DWP has one post where the post-holder is required to have a first degree in science, and both of the post-holders meet that requirement (one is on maternity leave). The post is graded Senior Scientific Officer, band E.
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| | DWP has no information on degrees held by other staff, which do not relate to the duties of their posts.
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| Forestry Commission (FC) | PB1
| 1 | 24
| n/k | Engineering degrees include: BEng, BSc and MSc (eg BEng Civil Engineering, BSc Forest Engineering).
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| PB2 | 5
| 80 | n/k
| Science degrees include: BA, BSc, MA and MSc (eg BA Physics, BSc Agriculture and Forestry).
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| PB3 | 6
| 94 | n/k
| The figures provided reflect information that is updated by individuals on a voluntary basis as their careers progress. Therefore the Forestry Commission's (FC's) records may be incomplete. The system does not record professional memberships or affiliations, so FC has been unable to identify Chartered Engineers amongst their staff.
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| PB4 | 8
| 149 | n/k
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| PB5 | 1
| 78 | n/k
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| PB5(OP) |
2 | 153
| n/k | |
| PB6A |
2 | 55
| n/k | |
| PB6A(OP) |
- | 48
| n/k | |
| PB6B |
- | 41
| n/k | |
| PB7 | -
| 2 | n/k
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| SSG1 |
- | 6
| n/k | |
| SSG1A |
- | 4
| n/k | |
| SSG2 |
- | 3
| n/k | |
| SSG3 |
- | 1
| n/k | |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) |
all | n/k
| n/k | n/k
| FCO's HR database does not hold this information. There are 90 FTE posts in the Science & Innovation Network; a number of these staff will hold science or engineering degrees, as may other staff in the department.
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| Food Standards Agency (FSA) | UG5
| 14 | |
- | Figures for the FSA were assembled 18 months ago, but probably still give a good picture of breadth and depth of scientific expertise in the Agency. For posts up to and including UG5 (SCS), the proportion of staff with at least a first degree in science is 46%. Of these at least 67% have postgraduate experience and qualifications. For the SCS senior leadership team above UG5 (10 posts) there is a higher proportion with at least a first degree in science.
Figures include the natural and social sciences. FSA is unable to distinguish engineers from scientists in this analysis, but it is unlikely that these figures include many engineers
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| HM Treasury | all
| n/k | n/k
| n/k | HM Treasury does not hold this information. No further explanation is currently available.
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| Home Office | SCS Grade 6 Grade 7 HSO HTTO SPTO HPTO PTO SSO SO AO
| 1 1 2 8 1 3 1 4 6 7 0 |
8 29 8 27 0 2 0 0 19 31 1 | 13
| Figures relate to Home Office posts (by grade) which require physical science or engineering degrees. Whilst the Home Office Home Office IT systems do not hold information on the first degrees of individuals, the Department is confident that all those included in this table hold a degree in the relevant area.
While this information is as complete as possible it may be that there are a small number of posts which have not been included.
The figures do not include individuals who hold either engineering or physical science degrees which are not essential for their post.
Some areas of the Department hold more information than others: the Home Office has at least 13 Chartered Engineers and at least 25 Chartered Scientists, although this information is not exhaustive.
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| Health & Safety Executive (HSE) | all
| 594 | 395
| 135 | The figures from HSE's e-HR system may under-estimate the number of degrees and chartered engineers because some staff have not entered all their qualifications or updated all of the chartered memberships onto the system.
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Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Includes data on personnel who work for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is a Trading Fund of MoD, but not its Defence Support Group (DSG), which is another Trading Fund
| E2 (AA) | 11
| | ~ 650 |
MoD's data has been extracted from its Human Resources Management System (HRMS). This is entered by individuals using self-service on a voluntary basis, so, although all members of staff are encouraged to enter details of their qualifications on HRMS, it is highly unlikely that this is the complete picture of science and engineering degrees held by civil servants in MoD.
At the end of Oct 2008, 44,500 out of the 65,000 MoD (not Trading Fund) staff did not have any qualifications listed on HRMS. Of the 22,500 people who had entered qualification data, 3500 indicated they had a first degree or higher (Level 6 in the National Qualifications Framework) and of these, 2000 had a first degree in engineering or science.
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| | Individuals enter qualifications on HRMS under one of 22 "Broad Categories". One of these categories is "Engineering and Science" and because this category combines the two disciplines, it has not been possible to separate the data into first degrees in engineering and first degrees in science.
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| | Because it is unclear where engineering and science could be taken to begin and end, these data also include the relevant degree subjects from the Health Professional, Corporate Support and Environment and Sustainability broad categories, which include psychology. Mathematics is not included.
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| | At the end of 2007, as part of its future workforce planning initiatives, Dstl undertook a voluntary survey of the technical competencies of its staff, which included a request to identify qualifications. This was a non-mandatory information gathering activity and as such, the data from Dstl is also incomplete and yet to be verified.
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Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Includes data on personnel who work for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is a Trading Fund of MoD, but not its Defence Support Group (DSG), which is another Trading Fund
| E2 (AA) | 11
| | ~ 650 |
Information about an individual's chartered status and membership of professional institutions is also entered on HRMS on a voluntary basis, so it is again highly unlikely that this is the true number of Chartered Engineers within MoD. The MoD figure for the number of Chartered Engineers reflects the number of people who recorded their level of membership of one of the professional institutions who award the designation CEng as Chartered, but a breakdown by pay grade was not available. 47 people recorded Chartered Engineer as a qualification on HRMS; however, these people are not included in the above total as it could not be established if they had also recorded their membership of an institution as Chartered and would therefore be counted twice.
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| | Dstl provides a mentoring scheme to support staff seeking to achieve Chartership and Accreditation. As part of this process, Dstl is aware of 96 Chartered Engineers who are acting as mentors to others, but do not know the pay grade breakdown of these people. However, it is believed that there are other members of staff who have achieved Chartered status in their particular discipline who are not currently engaged as mentors within the formal Dstl Chartership scheme. Dstl currently has no central database of professional memberships or Charterships from which to provide specific information on the numbers.
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