Mr. A. Cecil Walkerasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) whether Her Majesty's Government will publish the percentage of Northern Ireland civil servants (a) who were schooled outside Northern Ireland and (b) about whom no schooling classification could be ascertained despite being educated within Northern Ireland;
(2) whether Her Majesty's Government will now provide a disaggregated breakdown of all civil servants recruited and promoted, on the basis of (a) since the inception of the schooling question and (b) thenceforward annually.
§ Dr. BoysonI refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Berkshire East, (Mr. MacKay) on 10 February 1986, at columns 325–26.
Recruitment and promotion have been included in the monitoring arrangements, and when the results become available, these will be published in monitoring reports, which it is intended should be published annually.
Mr. A. Cecil Walkerasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether Her Majesty's Government are willing to permit transferability on a voluntary basis 221W between the Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Home Civil Service in the same way as is presently permitted between Departments within the Home Civil Service.
§ Dr. BoysonThe Northern Ireland Civil Service and the Home Civil Service are separate services under the Crown. Although there are no formal arrangements for transfers between them, officers of either service can be attached to the other service on a temporary basis. A permanent transfer may be arranged on compassionate grounds where there are compelling welfare circumstances.