§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many civil servants in his Department applied in each year since 1986 through the business appointments system to take up an outside appointment(a) as an independent consultant, (b) in a firm of consultants and (c) in other employment; how many were referred to the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments; and how many were granted.
§ Mr. BoswellDetailed records of outside appointments taken up under the business appointments system have been maintained by the Department since 1990. The information required is given in the table.
The great majority of applications in 1990 and 1991 came from former members of Her Majesty's inspectorate of schools.
million in 1993–94 to £270 million in 1994–95 reflected the growing number of self-governing schools and overall pressures on public expenditure.