HC Deb 03 July 2003 vol 408 cc437-8W
Annabelle Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many senior departmental posts were advertised in each year since 1999; and how many of those were advertised in the Scottish Press. [120665]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The number of Senior Civil Service posts advertised by my Department since June 1999 are as follows:

Posts
April 2002 to March 2003 12
April 2001 to March 2002 6
April 2000 to March 2001 16
June 1999 to March 2000 8

students in UK further education colleges. In 1999 a target was set to attract an extra 25,000 non-European Union international students to UK further education colleges by 2005 compared to the base year of 1996/97 (25,102).