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Mr. Jenkins
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will estimate the number and percentage of civil servants in his Department, at each grade including and above higher executive officer who (a) attended university and (b) attended either Oxford or Cambridge University; [33059](2) if he will estimate the number of civil servants in his Department, at each grade, who received their schooling in the independent school sector; [33060](3) if he will estimate for each of the last five years, the number and percentage of new civil servants in his Department who attended Oxford or Cambridge University, broken down into the number of entrants
| Government Office Region | Civil Servants(1 April 1995) | Civil Servants(1 April 1996) | Civil Servants(1 April 1997) | |||
| Number | Per cent.1 | Number | Per cent:1 | Number | Per cent.1 | |
| North East | 30,000 | 1.15 | 27,800 | 1.07 | 24,700 | 0.95 |
| North West | 40,800 | 0.75 | 40,600 | 0.74 | 41,700 | 0.76 |
| Merseyside | 15,300 | 1.07 | 15,300 | 1.08 | 13,500 | 0.94 |
| Yorkshire and Humberside | 33,100 | 0.66 | 32,200 | 0.64 | 32,200 | 0.64 |
| East Midlands | 21,700 | 0.53 | 20.900 | 0.50 | 20,600 | 0.49 |
| West Midlands | 33,100 | 0.62 | 32,000 | 0.60 | 31,100 | 0.58 |
| Eastern | 30,700 | 0.58 | 30,300 | 0.57 | 24,100 | 0.45 |
| London | 103,800 | 1.48 | 96,400 | 1.36 | 86,600 | 1.23 |
| South East | 64,100 | 0.82 | 60,900 | 0.77 | 62,200 | 0.79 |
| South West | 53,000 | 1.10 | 49,700 | 1.03 | 50,700 | 1.04 |
| Wales | 27,500 | 0.94 | 20,400 | 0.90 | 36,500 | 0.90 |
| Scotland | 48,500 | 0.94 | 46,600 | 0.91 | 45,800 | 0.89 |
| Northern Ireland2 | 5,000 | 0.30 | 5,000 | 0.32 | 5,000 | 0.30 |
| 1Percentage of resident population at I July in the relevant year. | ||||||
| 2The Northern Ireland Civil Service are not included. | ||||||