§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many of the successful candidates for the higher Foreign Service in each year since 1946 were educated, respectively, at a Scottish university followed by Oxford or Cambridge University.
§ Mr. TurtonThe numbers are as follows:
1946 … … … … 1 1949 … … … … 2 1950 … … … … 2 1953 … … … … 1
§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many of the successful candidates for the higher Foreign Service in each year since 1946 were educated, respectively, at independent Scottish schools, at direct grant Scottish schools, and at local authority Scottish schools.
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§ Mr. TurtonThe numbers of entrants to the senior branch of the Foreign Service who were educated respectively at independent Scottish schools, direct grant Scottish schools or maintained Scottish schools, were as follows:
Year Independent Direct grant Maintained 1946 … 1 — 1 1947 … 3 3 1 1948 … 1 1 2 1949 … — — 7 1950 … 1 1 2 1951 … 1 — 1 1952 … — 1 — 1953 … 1 — 1 1954 … 2 — — 1955 … 1 — —
§ Mr. G. M. Thomsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many appointments have been made to the higher Foreign Service in each year since 1946.
§ Mr. TurtonThe total number of appointments to the senior branch of the Foreign Service (excluding the legal advisers) was as follows:
1946 … … … … 100 1947 … … … … 89 1948 … … … … 40 1949 … … … … 55 1950 … … … … 46 1951 … … … … 25 1952 … … … … 20 1953 … … … … 21 1954 … … … … 30 1955 … … … … 26