§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge; and how many are graduates of other universities.
§ Mrs. Gillian Shephard[holding answer 12 July 1990]: Departmental personnel records show that 346 officers in grades 1 to 7 (and professional equivalents) in the Department of Social Security have degrees: 52 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and 294 graduated from other universities.