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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list each category of employee within the Northern Ireland Probation Service and the numbers employed in each category, broken down by (a) gender and (b) perceived community origin. [110657] Mr. Ingram: The information requested is given in the table: Probation Board for Northern Ireland _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Category of employed Number of Number of Roman Number of male Number of Number of Roman Number of female Protestant male Catholic male employees whose Protestant Catholic female employees whose employees employees Community cannot female employees employees Community cannot be determined be determined Managers and 6 7 5 9 5 5 administrators Professional occupations 19 23 6 35 33 20 Associate professional 0 0 0 0 1 0 and technical occupations Clerical and secretarial 5 5 3 52 32 10 occupations Crafts and skilled 9 10 16 2 4 5 manual occupations Personal and protective 0 0 0 0 0 0 service occupations Sales occupations 0 0 0 0 0 0 Plant and machine 0 0 0 0 0 0 operatives Other occupations 0 0 1 1 0 1 Totals 39 45 31 99 75 41 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

344 c960-1W; 110657

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Gender Ethnic groups Staff Minority groups Northern Ireland Probation Service

Contains statistics

Yes