§ Mr. Dickensasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the total entry to the administrative class of his Department and to the Diplomatic Service in each year since 1945, showing separately the numbers educated at a public school and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
§ Mr. M. StewartTotal entry to the Senior Branch of the Foreign Service and to the Administrative Class of the Diplomatic Service in each year since 1945, showing separately the numbers educated at a public school and at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is as follows:
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I. TOTAL ENTRY TO THE SENIOR BRANCH OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE 1945–64* Year Number of Entrants Number who attended Public Schools† Number who attended Oxford and Cambridge 1945 23 19 20 1946 94 76 72 1947 92 79 74 1948 37 29 25 1949 49 36 36 1950 37 22 29 1951 24 21 20 1952 17 14 14 1953 21 15 18 1954 33 26 29 1955 26 19 20 1956 20 16 15 1957 19 9 12 1958 16 11 12 1959 32 29 24 1960 35 22 25 1961 35 20 30 1962 30 16 23 1963 31 23 26 1964 40 21 23
II. TOTAL ENTRY TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE GRADES OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE Year Number of Entrants Number who attended Public Schools† Number who attended Oxford and Cambridge 1965 50 32 31 * These figures do not include those entrants to the Administrative Class of the Home Civil Service who joined the Commonwealth Relations Office prior to the amalgamation of the Commonwealth Relations Office with the Foreign Service. Many of these officers have exercised their right to join the Diplomatic Service when it was formed. The same applies to former members of the Trade Commissioners Service. † "Public Schools" have been taken as independent day and boarding schools, excluding direct-grant and maintained schools.