asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what number and what proportion of the administrative class officials in the Treasury have economics degrees.

The administrative class no longer exists. In those grades in the Open Structure and the Administration Group approximately analogous to the old administrative class grades there are 156 officers of whom 32 per cent.—50—hold economics degrees. In addition there are 52 officers in the Treasury employed as professional economists, all of whom hold economics degrees.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what number and what proportion of the administrative class officials in the Treasury joined the Civil Service straight from university.

Sixty-five officers of the 156 in those grades in the Open Structure and the Administration Group approximately analogous to the old administrative class grades entered the Civil Service straight from university after taking their first degree.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what number and what proportion of the administrative class civil servants in the Treasury, excluding exchange arrangements or temporary release, have any experience of working either in industry or in the City.

There are 156 officers in the Treasury in the Open Structure and in the Administration Group in those grades approximately analogous to the old administrative class grades. Excluding exchanges or temporary releases, 10 of these have had substantive experience of working in industry or the City.