The Department actively seeks to expand the range of datasets it shares through the Government’s Open Data portal. In this regard, it is the first government department to publish gender-based statistics.

This data is drawn from the Department’s HR database system and provides on a headcount basis, a female-male breakdown at grade and grade equivalent level.

These statistics will be published annually, using the position at the end of December.

For baseline and comparison purposes, and to assist the reader in forming a picture of how the Department’s gender balance has evolved over the last 20+ years, we have also provided these reports as at December 2000, 2010, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

The Department is quite unique in terms of the broad range of grades of its staff. At the end of 2022 there were 75 grades spread across three distinct grade streams; General Service, Professional & Technical, Industrial. We have uploaded a table which provides a breakdown of these grades within their respective streams and which, in the case of the Professional & Technical grades, also shows their General Service grade equivalent.

By way of illustration of the diversity of the grades in the Department, our headcount at the end of December 2022 was 1,604 of which 905 were General Service staff serving across 18 different grades and representing 56.42% of our workforce.

The Professional & Technical headcount was 533. These staff were spread across 44 grades and accounted for 33.23% of our staffing complement at that time.

We had 166 Industrial staff at the end of December. These staff represented 10.35% of our workforce and were spread across 13 different grades.