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Mr. Dalyell
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry why three under-secretary posts at the Export Credits Guarantee Department are occupied by non-career civil servants from the private sector; and if he will state their previous experience.
Mr. Channon
This is not the case. There are no non-career civil servants at under-secretary level in ECGD. But I intend that some appointments by secondment from the private sector should be made in due course, as I told my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Mr. Hayes) on 24 July 1985 at column 570. An advertisement for one undersecretary post has appeared recently.