AQW 3587/22-27


Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim


Tabled Date: 27/09/2022
Answered On Date: 04/10/2022
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance (i) how many full-time equivalents are employed by his Department at each civil service grade; and (ii) for each grade what proportion are (a) women; (b) people from ethnic minority backgrounds; and (c) disabled.


Answer:
The number of Full Time Equivalents (FTE) employed in DAERA at each Civil Service Grade and the proportion of women, people from ethnic minority background and disabled are shown in the table below.
Grade
FTE
Female FTE (%)
Ethnic minority background FTE (%) 1
Disabled FTE (%) 2
G5+
29
30.0
0
0
G6
28
35.7
0
*
G7
272
47.1
0
4.8
DP
492
44.1
*
4.3
SO
714
45.0
*
5.6
EOI
543
34.3
0
5.3
EOII
411
47.0
*
7.1
AO
412
67.7
1.2
12.1
AA
66
52.2
*
12.1
Industrial
187
12.4
0
#
Total
3154
44.4
0.5
6.2
Footnotes
Ethnic origin data is missing for 241 DAERA staff
Any staff for whom disability information is missing (58% of DAERA staff at 1 January 2022) have been allocated to the ‘No disability declared’ category.
* Number of cases too small to publish percentage (i.e. below 5).
# Percentage has been suppressed, to avoid disclosing another number that is too small to publish.