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APPENDIX TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE
Diplomatic Service Grades
The following table provides comparisons with each of the last five years as well as the level of those who resigned. It includes DS Technical and Communication Grades.
5
6
6T
2
8
8C
8T
0
I
9
8
9C
0
10
37
Secretaries
70
75
Research Officers
4
Legal advisers
Security Officers
4
Mainstream
and equivalent
Technical Grades
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
SG
4
7E
7T
7C
7D
INONOMNO
1-~1--00 +
1-3 1ONO0 3 -ON-8211+
1
3
2
0
114 onoo
1-3103-0
Total Resignation in Grade
1
7
10
8
2.5
29.5
NOMO-
2
5
0
3
0
5
2.5
I 16.5
3
0
0
0
0
1
17
14
24
0
2
2
43
37
50
57
79
80
67
76
3
2.5
1
∞ O-42DONAN
8
17
0
2
1
4
99
7
252
447
11.5
3
6
3
11
Total Resignations
for year
125
135
160
157
161.5
182
920.5
Home Civil Service Cadre
The following table provides a breakdown by grade and includes HCS Technical and Communications staff. Administration Officers and Administrative Assistants account for about 50 per cent of the total. With the exception of these grades and for some of the technical grades, no prior figures are available.
HCS 7
SEO
EO
83 34 ༨༥.༨ *86 87
1988 Total Resignations in Grade
1
4206
Professional & Technical Staff
Translators
Cypher & Signals Branch Officers (TCOs) Administrative Officers
8
19
Administrative Assistants
10
ao
32
28
22
24 43
323
42
22 20 26
225
45
25
Support Grades
38
Telecommunications Technical Officers
(TTO) I
0
ΤΤΟ
ATTO
Trainee TTO
0
Process & General Supervisory Grade E Process & General Supervisory Grade D Typists
0
1
0
5
5
Technical Grade 1
0 0
0
Total Resignations
Source: FCO (Evidence, p 36).
2140-onc
ONNN-NTO
1020-030
----Dono
0
2
2
2
0900-0-0
1
6
10
OMONO
0
3
2
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These tables demonstrate the deteriorating situation in most grades. A particularly "disturbing" event was the loss of eight young staff in the "fast stream" posts of Grade DS 7D/8 in 1988 against an average of one or two in previous years. When we discussed this with Sir Patrick Wright, the "non-competitive situation" in pay and in other facilities as compared with that offered to graduates by the private sector was identified as a "considerable factor", 2
7. In addition, there is the problem which "stretches right through the Service and ... is
'Q 90. 2 Q 90.