asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to discuss with the Police Federation his proposals for increases under phase III.

Work is in hand in the Police Council on proposals for police pay in the next round and I understand that the Police Federation for England and Wales, which is not taking part in the work of the Police Council, is itself preparing a case. I await the details of these two studies.

asked the Minister for the Civil Service whether civil servants who are away sick have to provide medical evidence if the absence is only for very short periods; and, if not, what are the rules which apply in these cases.

To qualify for sick pay civil servants are normally required to provide medical evidence that they are unfit for work. This requirement may be waived for an absence of up to five days provided that not more than a total of 10 days' paid sick leave without medical evidence is taken in any period of 12 months and provided that sickness benefit is not drawn for the period of absence.

asked the Minister for the Civil Service how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

Out of the 377 staff of the rank of principal or equivalent and above in the Civil Service Department, 59 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge University, 89 are graduates of other universities and 11 are graduates of both another university and Oxford or Cambridge.

asked the Minister for the civil service how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.

Out of the seven staff of the rank of deputy secretary of equivalent and above in the Civil Service Department, three are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge University and two are graduates of other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the conditions upon which a long-term unemployed person can be eligible for long-term supplementary benefit rates.

No unemployed person who is required by the Supplementary Benefits Commission to register for employment as a condition of receiving a supplementary allowance is eligible for the long-term rate. Those not required to register include men and women solely responsible for the care of dependent children, blind people unaccustomed to working outside the home, people incapable of work and people who while not incapable of work are so disabled that they are for practical purposes unemployable. At the Commission's discretion people caring for sick relatives and women widowed in late middle age with no employment experience and suffering from ill-health may also qualify.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has recently ordered to be extended the length of time an unemployed person can go on holiday and still claim unemployment benefit while on holiday; and if he will make a statement.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimate he has made of the extra cut in benefits of extending the length of time an unemployed person can go on holiday and claim unemployment benefit while he is on holiday, as recently extended by his Department.

An unemployed person may receive unemployment benefit in respect of a period of temporary absence from home while on holiday in Great Britain or Northern Ireland only if he can prove that he was available for work throughout the period concerned. To do this the claimant must have taken reasonable steps to ensure that he could receive without delay any notification of suitable employment that might be made to him, and he must have been ready, willing and able to curtail his holiday at once in order to accept such employment. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to the length of absence for which employment benefit may he paid, and reference to the independent adjudicating authorities would always be made if the claimant's availability was in doubt, whatever the length of the absence. I have no proposals for changing these arrangements.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many eye tests were undertaken by opticians under the National Health Service in the area covered by the Macclesfield constituency in each of the last four years.

The number of sight tests carried out under the general ophthalmic services by ophthalmic opticians in the Cheshire Family Practitioner Committee area—and previously the larger Cheshire Executive Council area—in which the Macclesfield constituency is included is given below for the years requested. The figures are based on a 1 per cent. sample.

the Cheshire FPC area in the past four years was as follows (actual number):

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what evidence he has of any connection between nitro-phenylsediamines and cancer.

Evaluation by the Department's medical advisers of available data shows no evidence of any link between hair dyes containing nitrophenylenedia-mines and cancer. Further studies, some recently completed and others in progress, will be assessed as the data becomes available.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what research is being done in the United Kingdom into the relationship between nitrophenylsedia-mines and cancer.

Research studies are in progress in the United Kingdom at the University of Birmingham and elsewhere. This research includes animal tests for carcinogenicity and studies of the effects of handling and working with these hair dye products.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a report of the inquiry into the case of Elizabeth Shewan; and if he will make a statement.

The committee of inquiry into the case of Elizabeth Shewan was set up by the Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority (Teaching). The findings of the committee are that the accident arose from the transposition of two medical gas hoses and resulted in Miss Shewan being given nitrous oxide instead of oxygen. The tragic consequences were due to a combination of circumstances, responsibility for which was shared among a number of people. The report makes 22 recommendations, nearly all concerning patient safety in operating theatres generally.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will extend the ancillary staff scheme for general practitioners to include the wives of general practitioners, employed in their husbands' practices.

I have authorised my officials to discuss with the doctors' representatives the principles on which a limited experimental scheme for single-handed rural doctors might be run.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what would be the annual gross and net costs of raising all child benefits to £4 per week and withdrawing the child tax allowances at the same time;(2) how many children now qualify for payment of child benefit to mothers at £1 and £1·50 per week, respectively; and what would be the annual gross and net costs if all child benefits were raised to £3 per week at the same time as the child tax allowances were withdrawn.

Child benefit is currently being paid in respect of around 7 million first children at £1 per week and 6·85 million subsequent children at £1·50 per week.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services in what percentage of cases involving fraud of social security benefits which resulted in conviction the convicted person was not required to pay back the full amount of money that that person had defrauded.

As these are local decisions, the information requested is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cases there were in each of the last five years for which figures are available, in which his Department successfully brought prosecutions in respect of benefits obtained by fraudulent means, what was the total amount involved in the actual charges brought; what additional amount was recovered by subsequent court proceedings or other means; and what was the balance outstanding and not recovered.

The number of successful prosecutions in respect of benefit fraud brought by my Department—including some brought by the Police on the Department's behalf—is as follows:

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

Out of 1,944 staff of the rank of principal, or equivalent, and above, 127 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge universities, and 538 are graduates of other universities. Of those holding Oxford or Cambridge degrees, 14 also hold degrees from other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.

Out of the 15 staff of the rank of deputy secretary, or equivalent, and above, 10 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and two are graduates of other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he maintains a record of the paid public appointments made by him; and if he will publish in the Official Report the list of such appointments made during the last 12 months for which a record has been maintained.

No central departmental record is maintained of the paid public appointments made by my right hon. Friend, and the information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, information of this nature was specially collected at 1st February 1976 for the "Directory of Paid Public Appointments Made by Ministers", prepared and published by the Civil Service Department. A copy of the directory is available in the Library of the House.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the value of second-hand equipment sold by the Gloucestershire Area Health Authority in each year since its formation.

I regret this information is not held centrally. I will write to my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has plans to recommend to local area health authorities how best they can dispose of equipment which is no longer in use.

Advice was last issued to all health authorities in January 1976 on the disposal of such equipment. I am sending a copy to my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the present value of all capital equipment in National Health Service hospitals.

I regret that this information is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the number of persons drawing supplementary benefit who were previously self-employed.

I regret that this information is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the numbers of self-employed persons who are unemployed but ineligible for employment benefit.

The number of persons registering as unemployed, but unable to meet the contribution conditions for unemployment benefit because they have a Class 2—self-employed—contribution record, cannot be reliably estimated.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will place in the Library the text of all circulars sent out by his Department to local offices of his Department or to local offices of the Department of Employment that dealt in any way whatsoever with the subject of persons on holiday in Spain being eligible for unemployment benefit while in Spain, within 12 months of 4th August 1976.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give particulars of the length of time taken and cost involved in establishing a framework for the development of a comprehensive community programme in conjunction with the Institute of Local Government Studies at Birmingham University; and which recommendations have been upheld.

The contract with the Institute of Local Government Studies for advice on the development of comprehensive community programmes (CCPs) is for a period of two years from 1st October 1975. Responsibility for the contract was transferred from the Home Office to the Department of the Environment, together with responsibility for the urban programme, on 13th June 1977. The total cost is estimated to be about £41,000. This work has consisted of advising on different aspects of the CCP approach rather than submitting a single report containing a series of recommendations.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment at what stage in their development the two comprehensive community programmes at Gateshead and Motherwell are; and what is the full-time staff employed and at work in each.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment at what stage in development are the two comprehensive community programmes at Gateshead and Motherwell; and what full-time staff are employed at work in each.

A team of four is now in post in Gateshead and has started work on the preparation of a comprehensive community programme. In Motherwell two staff are employed full-time. They are midway through the research and policy phase of the project.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much money has actually been spent to date on the comprehensive community programme specifying the amount spent in each project.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much money has actually been spent to date on the comprehensive community programmes, and if he will specify the amount spent on each project and the dates on which the remaining projects will be launched.

£8,700 has been paid by central Government to Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council to meet expenditure on the comprehensive community programme (CCP) team, all of it during the first quarter of the financial year 1977–78. I understand that in Motherwell about £19,300 was spent during the financial year 1976–77. Figures for actual expenditure incurred there this financial year are not yet available.We have no immediate plans for inviting other local authorities to undertake CCPs.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether the Government intend to introduce new policies for urban areas as a whole along the lines of the document "Policy for the Inner Cities", Command Paper No. 6845.

A large measure of priority will be given in the early years to the regeneration of the inner areas of the major cities, particularly those to whom partnerships are being offered. But as the White Paper makes clear, other authorities will be able to continue to improve inner area conditions, using the very considerable resources at their disposal. They will be able to prepare and implement inner area programmes and the Government will consider linking urban aid to those programmes, though necessarily on a modest scale at first.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what particular development work of the comprehensive community programme has influenced Her Majesty's Government when drawing up their White Paper entitled "Policy for the Inner City".

The chief contribution lay in the approach adopted in the development work, in particular the emphasis on diverting the main policies and programmes of local and central Government and on securing a more unified approach by the authorities and agencies concerned to the problems of urban deprivation.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he is satisfied that the sums of public money that have been made available to the Brent Community Law Centre are being used in a satisfactory manner.

Urban programme grant is paid to local authorities. It is for them to satisfy themselves about projects receiving assistance.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will introduce legislation to implement the Government's proposal that dwellings should in future be assessed for rates by reference to their capital values.

Consultations following the publication of the Green Paper on Local Government Finance are still in progress. We will not be in a position to say when legislation will be introduced until these consultations are further advanced.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make provision in the rating assessment of ports to eliminate the element of double counting, in that some rents from separately rated premises are included in the relevant receipts of a port undertaking on which the rate charge is based.

No. Rents from separately rated premises are already completely excluded in the great majority of ports; to cater equitably for all ports would involve changing the present basis in a way which would produce an unacceptable amount of valuation work and thus nullify much of the advantage of simplicity offered by the formula.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

Of the 1,887 staff in my Department of the rank of principal, or equivalent, and above, 139 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, 341 hold degrees from other universities and 20 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and of another university. The remaining 1,387 are non-graduates. In addition, there are 709 staff in these ranks who provide a common service to my Department and to the Department of Transport. Of these, 73 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, 370 hold degrees from other universities and 24 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and of another university. The remaining 242 are non-graduates.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities and how many are graduates of other universities.

The three Permanent Secretaries and five deputy secretaries are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge. Two of the remaining five Deputy Secretaries are graduates of other universities. Common services to my Department and that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport are provided by four groups of staff, each headed by a deputy secretary. All four deputy secretaries are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether the Director of Estates Services of his Department has completed his proposals for the future of the Directorate referred to in the Minister of State's reply to the hon. Member for Melton on 25th January 1977; and whether he will make a statement.

proposals are now under consideration in the Department.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has now been advised by the National Water Council that the estimated cost of direct billing for water nationally would be about £10 million; and what steps he proposes to take to ensure that the advice that he has given to water authorities to avoid an increase in the combined expenditure of water authorities and rating authorities should be adhered to.

I have nothing to add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris) on 3rd May.—[Vol. 931; c. 118.] I was aware at that time of the National Water Council's estimate to which the hon. Member refers.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to implement the Government's decision to provide financial assistance towards the maintenance and repair of historic churches still used for public worship.

I will write to the hon. Member.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total expenditure of his Department on the provision of gardens, pot plants and other displays of plants and flowers.

A limited amount of floral decoration is provided, mainly for State occasions and international conferences. The cost in 1976–77 was £6,000. No separate figure is available for the cost of gardens.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if, in the light of the fact that Rufford village, near Ormskirk, is a conservation area, he will give permission to Lancashire County Council to cut the grass verges.

As I explained in my letter of 11th July to my hon. Friend, Lancashire County Council is authorised within its trunk road maintenance programme to cut the grass verges in question twice a year.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many new licences were issued for driving two-wheeled motorised vehicles in the year ended 30th April 1977; and how this compares with the number of new licences issued in the previous year.

As applicants for provisional driving licences are not required to state which type(s) of vehicle they propose to drive or ride, I regret that I have no information to enable me to answer the hon. Member's Question.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport on what date it is proposed to hold the joint public inquiry on the Bowes Bypass.

The joint public inquiry into the Bowes Bypass has been provisionally arranged for early November this year subject to the availability of an inquiry inspector.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the total number of vehicles per day currently, or at the latest convenient date, using the roads listed in the Written Answer, Official Report, 4th August 1976, column 882, under "Schemes set back by 1-2 years" and "Schemes set back by 2-3 years" and the forecast number expected to use these roads by 1980.

I regret that the information is not readily available.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the cost of collection of motor vehicle licence tax through the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre at Swansea, expressed as a percentage of revenue collected.

In financial year 1976–77 total cost of administering vehicle licensing and registration and the collection of Vehicle Excise Duty was approximately 6.3 per cent. of the net revenue collected.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many consumers of (a) gas and (b) electricity were disconnected for non-payment of accounts during each of the past five years, specifying where possible the number who were domestic consumers.

Disconnections for the past five years for nonpayment of accounts are given in the following table. In the case of gas, separate figures for domestic consumers are not available; for electricity, they are available for 1975–76 and 1976–77 only.From 1st April 1976 the figures for electricity disconnections have been revised to exclude disconnections which do not relate to domestic premises in regular occupation.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many consumers of (a) gas and (b) electricity were disconnected for non-payment of accounts during the quarters ended 30th June 1976, 31st September 1976, 31st December 1976 and 31st March 1977, indicating where possible the numbers who were domestic consumers.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many local authorities or other housing agencies have responded to his suggestion that they should take advantage of the job creation programme to sponsor schemes for the insulation of their housing; how many such projects were approved; how many were refused; and how many are still under consideration.

To the end of March 1977, 102 local authority and other housing agencies had made a total of 104 applications under the job creation programme for housing roof insulation projects. Of these 61 were approved, one was rejected and 23 applications were still under consideration at that date. The 19 remaining applications had been withdrawn. Figures for the second quarter will be available shortly, and I shall send them to my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what progress he has made in devising a comprehensive scheme enabling local authorities to insulate their housing stock by making use of the various training and work experience programmes for school leavers.

The Department of Energy is now conducting, jointly with other Departments, a major review of possible further Government action to promote energy conservation. This includes consideration of ways to secure economic levels of insulation in buildings, including those of local authorities.

Disconnections of gas and electricity consumers for non-payment of accounts during the past four quarters are given in the following table. In the case of gas, separate figures for domestic and non-domestic consumers are not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list those local authorities and other housing agencies which have submitted approved job creation schemes for the insulation of their housing stock, indicating the number of homes involved in each.

Details of housing roof insulation projects submitted by local authorities and other housing agencies and approved under the job creation programme as at 31st March 1977 are given below:

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

Of 239 civil servants in my Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above, 49 are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and 100 are graduates of other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.

Of six officers of deputy secretary rank and above in the Department, three are graduates of Oxford or Cambridge and two are graduates of other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what is the average recovery factor for North Sea oilfields, illustrating his estimates with reference to leading fields.

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a similar Question by him on 13th December 1976.—[Vol. 922, c. 487–8.]

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he is yet in a position to announce the order for the Drax B power station.

An announcement will be made as soon as possible.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to what causes he attributes the fact that in the last three years 15, 19 and 18 per cent. of appeals to the Planning Commission were successful compared with 22, 25 and 29 per cent., respectively, of appeals to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and his inspectors.

There is some evidence that a higher proportion of planning applications are approved at the first stage in Northern Ireland; moreover, the existence of a single planning authority and a single appeal body in Northern Ireland may produce greater consistency in decisions on both applications and appeals.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

Of the 150 members of my Department at the rank of principal or equivalent and above, 20 hold degrees from Oxford or Cambridge and 66 hold degrees from other universities.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.

Of the three members of my Department at the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above, one holds a Cambridge degree and one holds a degree from a university other than Oxford or Cambridge.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what is his policy towards the initiative of the Kent County Council in doing everything possible to help unemployed school leavers to find employment within the Kent area; and if he will make a statement.

I am pleased that the Kent County Council has apealed to employers to co-operate with the careers service in providing more employment and training opportunities for young people, particularly those now leaving school.The Government hope that employers throughout the country will be encouraged to take full advantage of the various special schemes which have been introduced to combat youth unemployment. The success of the expanded programme of youth opportunities which my right hon. Friend announced on 29th June will depend very much upon community initiatives of the kind displayed by the county council, and upon local participation generally.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what has been the cost of the job creation scheme up to the present date.

I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that up to 7th July grants totalling £127£5 million had been allocated to projects approved under the job creation programme.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest available figures of those currently in work as a result of each of the following: temporary employment subsidy, the job creation scheme, youth employment subsidy, being placed in Government training centres and other schemes.

The numbers currently covered by the measures, as at the dates of count given are:NUMBER COVERED WITH DATE OF COUNT

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will express support for the removal of Chile from membership of the International Labour Organisation.

The constitution of the International Labour Organisation has no provision for removal of a member State from membership other than by voluntary withdrawal.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.

An analysis of DE Group staff of the rank of principal, or equivalent, and above, namely, those whose salary maximum is equal to or above that of the principal grade, indicates the following:

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.

An analysis of DE Group staff or the rank of deputy secretary, or equivalent, and above, namely, those whose salary maximum is equal to or above that of the grade, indicates the following:

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what steps have been taken by the Manpower Services Commission to see that grants made to create employment opportunities do not result in unfair competition with small businesses working in similar fields in the same area.

, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11th July 1977; Vol. 935, c. 54], gave the following information:I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that, where appropriate, local employers and trade unions are consulted to determine whether projects under consideration for funding under the job creation programme would be likely to give the sponsor any unfair commercial advantage or lead to the loss of employment opportunities.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what money is now available for job creation in Scotland.

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11th July 1977; Vol. 935, c. 53], gave the following information:I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that of the £42 million allotted to Scotland under the job creation programme, £5·7 million is still available for allocation to approved projects.In addition, workers in Scotland will benefit from the extension to 31st March 1978 of the youth employment subsidy, which was announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on 29th June, and from engagements made under the small firms employment subsidy, which applies to special development areas only and was introduced on 1st July 1977. I regret that no separate estimates for Scotland are available of either the cost or the numbers who will benefit under these schemes.Jobs created by funds provided under Section 7 of the Industry Act are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the criteria used by his Department for giving grants to co-operatives offering employment opportunities to the unemployed.

, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11th July 1977; Vol. 935, c. 54], gave the following information:All projects approved for funding under the job creation programme must satisfy the criteria listed in the reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, Central (Mr. McNamara) on 25th April 1977. The programme has since been extended and projects must now finish by 31st December 1978. Enterprise workshops, including co-operatives, are not specifically required to carry out work of community value provided they are likely to become self-financing by the end of JCP funding and thereby provide permanent jobs.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what are the circumstances in which a grant of £22,000 was made to three unemployed men to form a workers' co-operative now called Adepco; (2) if he will make a statement about the work of the three-man co-operative known as Adepco, and the level of grant he has approved for its continued working.

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 11th July 1977; Vol. 935, c. 54], gave the following information:I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that a grant of £21,999 under the Job Creation Programme was approved for the project known as Adepco to create jobs for 47 weeks for four adults and four young people in Swindon on the repair of wooden pallets. It is expected that the project will become self-financing by the end of JCP funding and thereby provide permanent jobs.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how the Royal Navy's capability of delivering nuclear powered ballistic missiles from submarines now compares, and will compare, on present plans, with that of France.

Our technical assessment is that our Polaris force compares very favourably with the French, particularly as regards quality and range of capabilities. In addition, our nuclear forces are committed to NATO, thereby enhancing their effectiveness as a deterrent.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities;(2) how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.