§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many senior diplomatic figures have been appointed from outside the Foreign Office in each of the last five years; and how many of these were women.
§ Mr. EggarThere has been one such appointment during the period: Sir Oliver Wright, a former member of the Diplomatic Service, was appointed ambassador to Washington in 1982.
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants of each grade are in the Diplomatic Service; and how many of these are women.
§ Mr. EggarThe required figures are tabulated as follows:
Diplomatic Service grade Total officers in grade Of whom women 10 545 289 9 773 250 8 50 7 7E 474 75 7D 79 14 6 294 21 5 439 29 4 288 12 Senior grade 154 1
§ Mrs. Virginia Bottomleyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many diplomats Britain has sent to the United Nations in the current year; and how many of these are women.
§ Mr. RentonIn 1985 four United Kingdom-based staff with diplomatic status have been posted to the United Kingdom mission to the United Nations in New York and eight to the mission in Geneva, including one woman to each.
There are currently 22 diplomatic staff in New York, of whom three are women, and 20 in Geneva, of whom one is a woman. Figures for all United Kingdom-based staff are: 46 in New York (18 women) and 37 in Geneva (12 women).
Dame Ann Warburton was the permanent representative in Geneva until her retirement from the Diplomatic Service in October.