§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many serving staff of the diplomatic service in the administrative group were recruited from polytechnics; and what numbers were so recruited in each of the years 1985 to 1987, inclusive.
§ Mrs. ChalkerNone.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the university degree in terms of subject held by serving staff of the diplomatic service in the administrative group.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe records are currently subject to a computer modernisation programme. According to present information, serving staff of the diplomatic service in the administrative group hold the following university degrees:
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Subject Number Anthropology/Archaeology 7 Classics 81 English 56 Economics 44 French 100 Geography 16 German 61 History 192 International Relations 16 Law 38 Mathematics 4 Modern Languages 49 Natural Science 16 Sciences (General) 20 Oriental Languages 18 Philosophy 20 Politics, Philosophy Economics 32 Politics 23 Regional Studies 5 Russian 29 Social Science 9 Mechanical Science 2 Spanish 16 War 3 Unspecified 15
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will provide a breakdown of the type of secondary school attended by serving staff of the diplomatic service in the administrative group.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThis information can be supplied only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. WareingTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown
University Total in Diplomatic Service Recruited 1985 Recruited 1986 Recruited 1987 Aberdeen 6 2 — — Aberystwyth 1 — — — Australian 1 — — — Bath 2 1 — — Belfast 2 — — — Birmingham 6 — — 1 Bristol 10 1 1 — Bradford 1 — — 1 Cambridge 222 6 4 7 Cardiff 2 — — — Dundee 1 — — — Durham 8 — 2 1 East Anglia 4 — 1 — Edinburgh 13 1 — 1 Exeter 4 — 1 — French 6 — — — German 1 — — — Glasgow 5 — — — Keele 4 — — — Leeds 10 — — 1 Leicester 1 — — — Liverpool 6 — — 1 London 42 1 (LSE) 2 1 Manchester 7 — — — Nottingham 3 — — — Newcastle 3 1 — — Oxford 262 6 8 10 Reading 4 — — — Royal Academy of Music 1 — 1 — Sheffield 2 — — 1 Southampton 2 1 — — St. Andrews 5 1 — — Surrey 2 — 1 — Sussex 8 1 — — Swansea 1 — — — Warwick 2 — 2 — York 1 — — — United States of America 27 — — — Unspecified 8 — — — No University degree 26 — — —