HC Deb 19 January 1998 vol 304 cc429-30W
Sir Richard Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Tooting (Mr. Cox) of 9 December 1997,Official Report, column 498, what percentage of total staff working at A grade the figure for British nationals represents for each directorate of the European Commission. [22658]

Mr. Doug Henderson

The answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Mr. Cox) on 9 December 1997,Official Report, column 498, was based on information from the European Commission dated July 1997. Since then, the Commission has supplied new information based on December 1997 figures.

According to this updated information, the number of British nationals working at A grades in each Directorate General of the Commission is as follows:

Directorate General Number of British officials at A grade British officials as percentage of total staff at A grade
I 37 17.0
IA 48 13.5
IB 26 12.4
2 11 8.5
3 15 7.4
4 15 8.2
5 23 11.1
6 28 8.2

Directorate General Number of British officials at A grade British officials as percentage of total staff at A grade
7 15 16.1
8 46 11.6
9 9 6.3
10 14 8.8
11 23 14.8
12 6 9.1
13 19 14.3
14 4 1.4
15 19 12.4
16 18 12.3
17 22 13.3
19 7 8.4
20 8 10.4
21 14 13.2
22 10 8.9
23 9 12.3
24 8 9.1

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