HC Deb 09 March 1998 vol 308 c26W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) if she will estimate the number and percentage of civil servants in her Department, at each grade including and above higher executive officer who(a) attended university and (b) attended either Oxford or Cambridge University; [33098]

(2) if she will estimate for each of the last five years, the number and percentage of new civil servants in her Department who attended Oxford or Cambridge University, broken down into the number of entrants joining the Department from (a) the regular Civil Service entrance procedure, (b) the fast stream and (c) the private sector; [33100]

(3) if she will estimate the number of civil servants in her Department, at each grade, who received their schooling in the independent school sector. [33099]

Clare Short

I regret that this information is not held centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost by a file by file search.

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