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Mr. Dickens
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the total entry to the administrative class of his Department and to the Diplomatic Service in each year since 1945, showing separately the numbers educated at a public school and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Mr. M. Stewart
Total entry to the Senior Branch of the Foreign Service and to the Administrative Class of the Diplomatic Service in each year since 1945, showing separately the numbers educated at a public school and at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is as follows:
| I. TOTAL ENTRY TO THE SENIOR BRANCH OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE 1945–64* | |||
| Year | Number of Entrants | Number who attended Public Schools† | Number who attended Oxford and Cambridge |
| 1945 | 23 | 19 | 20 |
| 1946 | 94 | 76 | 72 |
| 1947 | 92 | 79 | 74 |
| 1948 | 37 | 29 | 25 |
| 1949 | 49 | 36 | 36 |
| 1950 | 37 | 22 | 29 |
| 1951 | 24 | 21 | 20 |
| 1952 | 17 | 14 | 14 |
| 1953 | 21 | 15 | 18 |
| 1954 | 33 | 26 | 29 |
| 1955 | 26 | 19 | 20 |
| 1956 | 20 | 16 | 15 |
| 1957 | 19 | 9 | 12 |
| 1958 | 16 | 11 | 12 |
| 1959 | 32 | 29 | 24 |
| 1960 | 35 | 22 | 25 |
| 1961 | 35 | 20 | 30 |
| 1962 | 30 | 16 | 23 |
| 1963 | 31 | 23 | 26 |
| 1964 | 40 | 21 | 23 |
| II. TOTAL ENTRY TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE GRADES OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE | |||
| Year | Number of Entrants | Number who attended Public Schools† | Number who attended Oxford and Cambridge |
| 1965 | 50 | 32 | 31 |
| * These figures do not include those entrants to the Administrative Class of the Home Civil Service who joined the Commonwealth Relations Office prior to the amalgamation of the Commonwealth Relations Office with the Foreign Service. Many of these officers have exercised their right to join the Diplomatic Service when it was formed. The same applies to former members of the Trade Commissioners Service. | |||
| † "Public Schools" have been taken as independent day and boarding schools, excluding direct-grant and maintained schools. | |||