AQW 3587/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Finance
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.
Asked by John Blair MLA on 27 September 2022
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 27 September 2022
- Answer due by
- 12 October 2022
- Answered
- 4 October 20227 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Finance
- Priority question
- No
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. |