HC Deb 20 March 1984 vol 56 cc417-8W
Mr. Wareing

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the universities from which serving staff have been recruited into those grades of the Diplomatic Service broadly equivalent to those of the administration group of the Home Civil Service.

Mr. Whitney

The universities from which serving staff of the Diplomatic Service in the administrative group have been recruited are as follows:

Numbers
Aberdeen 10
Aberystwyth 3
Bangor 1
Bath 3
Belfast 3
Birmingham 10
Bradford 1
Bristol 20
Cambridge 290
Cardiff 5
Dundee 2
Durham 15
East Anglia 2
Edinburgh 23
Exeter 5
Glasgow 11
Hull 6
Keele 4
Kent 3
Lampeter 1
Lancaster 2
Leeds 11
Leicester 3
Liverpool 4
London 101
Manchester 21
Nottingham 6
Newcastle 5
Oxford 321
Reading 7
Salford 2
Sheffield 5
Southampton 4
St. Andrews 13
Strathclyde 2
Surrey 5
Sussex 11
Swansea 4
Ulster 1
Warwick 1
York 2
Polytechnics 4
Overseas Universities 53
Total 1,006