Annex C

Appointments of Heads of Missions and to Senior Management within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
% Female Heads of Mission (1)	10	12	17	16	20	No data	8.30%	8.30%	9.40%	10.50%
% Female SMS Senior Management	6.20%	8.10%	9.20%	10.80%	12.50%	No data	15%	16.40%	17.30%	18.70%
% Female secondees in SMS positions	No data	No data	No data	No data	No data	No data	1.0%	2.10%	1.90%	1.80%

Before 2005, the total number of Head of Missions is not available. The numbers for these years are the actual numbers, not percentages.

Annex D

Flexible Working

The Third Work Life Balance Employer Survey in the UK (BERR December 2007 ) is a survey of employers and is therefore not broken down by employee gender

4% of workplaces had no flexible working practices available. This rises to 10% for those with less than a quarter female employees

40% of workplaces received a request to work flexibly over the last 12 months. 9% of these turned down at least one request

15% of workplaces have no one working flexibly

employers that have a female workforce of over 50% consider requests to work flexibly more favourably than those with a male dominated workforce

45% of workplaces promote use of leave and flexible work arrangements available to their employees. 51% of workplaces do not (4% don’t know)

Annex E

Statistics on Sexual transmitted diseases in the UK (excluding HIV) in women compared to men 2000 – 2006

Year	Women	Men
2000	336194	288988
2001	359774	306618
2002	379382	325522
2003	391894	345824
2004	403299	369133
2005	411727	388069
2006	420327	400814

Statistics on rates of HIV/AIDS in the UK in women compared to men 2000 -2007

Year	Women	Men
2000	1393	2491
2001	1980	3120
2002	2652	3614
2003	3245	4090
2004	3171	4383
2005	3132	4530
2006	2834	4259
2007	735	1315

Statistics on HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases can be obtained from the Health Protection Scotland (HPS) Website: http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/index.aspx.

Annex F

Women Offenders

In England and Wales the most recent data relating to women’s offending (and information about offence types) is published below. There has been no recent analysis of trends (see main text for future plans).

Key statistics:

Women make up around 5% of the total prison population.

Between 1996 and 2006 the women’s prison population increased by 94% .

Over a third of all adult women in prison had no previous convictions – more than double the figure for men.

The proportion of women prisoners under immediate custodial sentence who are foreign nationals is 15%. 56% of female foreign nationals are serving sentences for drug exportation/importation.

Criminal Statistics Annual Report England and Wales 2006 http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/crim-stats-2006-tag.pdf . For female convictions and type of offence, see table 3.7 (page 62); for female convictions by type of offence and age group, see table 3.8 (page 64).

In England and Wales there are currently around 4425 females in prison.

Many of the women who enter prison:

Have mental health problems

Have histories of self-injury or suicide ideation

Have problems linked to substance misuse

Have experienced domestic violence and/or sexual abuse

Have a child or children at home, a substantial number being lone parents

Have been unemployed for a number of years

Lose their homes while in prison

Annex G

Data Relating to Scotland

In Scotland , over the ten year period, 1997/98 – 2006/07, the average daily prison population has increased by 19 per cent. In the same ten year period the female prison population has increased by 90 per cent; over five times the growth experienced in the male prison population (16 per cent). The 2006-07 female prison population was 353, an increase from 334 in 2005-06.

Provisional and unpublished data, which may be subject to change, shows that on 13 February 2008, there were 403 females in prison, 127 of whom were on Remand, 0 were fine defaulters, 202 were sentenced to less than 4 years and 74 were sentenced to 4 years or more (including life and recalls).

Trends in female convictions per head of population by age (see table 5 of “Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2005-06” Statistical Bulletin http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/ 2007/03/21083652/16 ).

Males accounted for 84 per cent of all convictions in 2005/06; more males than females were convicted in almost all crime and offence categories. The main exception to this pattern was "other" crimes of indecency, where females accounted for 74 per cent of what are mainly offences related to prostitution. The other categories where females formed a higher than average proportion of those convicted included fraud (35 per cent), shoplifting (28 per cent), "other theft" (20 per cent), the offence of non-payment of a television licence (71 per cent) (this offence category being included within "other miscellaneous offences"), and "other" non-sexual crimes of violence" (35 per cent).

Female convictions by main offence and age (see table 6(b) of “Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2005-06” Statistical Bulletin http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/21083652/18 ) .

Female convictions by main sentence and age (see table 12 of “Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts, 2005-06” Statistical Bulletin http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/21083652/25 ) .

The pattern of penalties imposed in 2005-06 varied with the age and gender of the offender.  In part this is likely to reflect the different patterns of offending and conviction histories of the different groups of offenders.  While males accounted for 84 per cent of all convictions in 2005-06, they represented 92 per cent of custodial convictions. Females accounted for 15 per cent of all convictions (excluding companies) but for 25 per cent of other sentences (mainly admonition).

There is currently no data held centrally on the ethnicity of persons proceeded against in courts.  Tables on female convictions by regions (Police Force Areas and individual Court Areas) can be pulled together on request but are not routinely held or published in this level of detail.