HC Deb 02 May 1990 vol 171 c548W
Mr. John Garrett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in theOfficial Report the numbers and percentages of his staff in grades 1 to 7 who have each (a) arts, (b) science and (c) technical degrees, (d) who are qualified accountants, (e) have postgraduate qualifications in management and (f) who were educated in (i) local authority and (ii) private schools.

Mr. Freeman

Full details could be recovered from personal files only at disproportionate cost. But the records held on computer for payroll purposes indicate that some 30 per cent. (164) of those in the relevant grades have arts degrees; 16 per cent. (88) have science and 4 per cent. (21) technical degrees; and there are on these records five qualified accountants and one person with a post graduate qualification in management. Type of school is not recorded, and the reliability of payroll data in respect of qualifications is sufficient only to illustrate orders of magnitude.