Supplementary memorandum submitted by
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
APPLICATIONS AND RECRUITMENT FOR 1999 AND
2000
As requested, I enclose the table giving the
breakdown of applications and recruitment for the Policy Entry
competition (formerly known as Fast Stream) for 1999, and provisional
figures for 2000. Some of our successful candidates are still
considering our offer and those who have accepted are undergoing
pre-appointment checks. We therefore do not have the definitive
gender and ethnicity figures. What I can say is that we have offered
two positions to candidates from minority ethnic groups (8 per
cent) and 14 to women (56 per cent). None of our successful candidates
has declared him- or herself disabled.
FCO Staff numbers, applications and recruitment,
policy entry ("fast stream", ie grades DS7D/8).
|
| 1999
| 20003 |
|
| Total: applications | 1,575
| | 2,752 |
|
| Total: recruited | 25
| | 25 |
|
| Women: applications (%)1 | 726
| (46) | 1,270
| (46) |
| Women: recruited (%)2 | 10
| (40) | 14
| (56) |
| Minority ethnic: applications (%)1 | 229
| (15) | 461
| (17) |
| Minority ethnic: recruited (%)2 | 0
| | 2 |
(8) |
| Disabled: applications (%)1 | 34
| (2) | 50
| (2) |
| Disabled: recruited (%)2 | 0
| | 0 |
|
|
1 Percentage figures refer to per cent of total applications
for given year.
2 Percentage figures refer to per cent of total recruited
for given year.
3 Provisional figures since not all candidates have accepted
job offers and all are required to undergo pre-appointment checks.
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