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→ Staff resign for a variety of reasons: marriage, disillusion with career prospects, dissatisfaction over pay, change of domestic circumstances (bereavement, divorce etc.), problems over schooling and lack of opportunity for spouse to pursue independent career. Amongst junior grades unwillingness to serve abroad and disenchantment over career prospects are the most frequently stated reasons: single women account for the highest proportion of resignations.
4. Can you provide a list of secondments from the Diplomatic Service in the last year, and comparisons, for the last five years? What are the comparisons, figures for secondments into the Diplomatic Service? How do these figures compare with the Home Civil Service?
Tables I and II below contain details of inward and outward secondments between the private sector and the Diplomatic Service from 1 January 1983 to 31 December 1988.
Tables III to VII compare the secondment statistics of all Government Departments for 1983-87 according to the following criteria:
Secondment must last longer than three months;
Only Grade DS9 (EO) and above are included;
The receiving organisation must be more than arm's length from Government (eg non-depart- mental bodies, research councils etc are not included).
Statistics for 1988 are not yet available.
In addition to our interchange programme with the private sector we have a similar exchange of staff with other Government Departments, non-departmental bodies and international organisations. At present there are 50 DS staff out on loan in this way, and 201 staff from such organisations working in the DS.
TABLE I: SECONDMENTS INTO DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
Equivalent Grade
Dates
Organisation
Starting During 1988
D$7
Jaguar
May 88 to date
DS5
BP
Sept 88 to date
LEI
Peat Marwick
July 88 to date
DS4
BNF
Feb 88 to date
D$5
BDH
Dec 88 to date
Starting During 1987
DS5
Bank of England
D$5
LEI
Shell Barclays
May 87 to date
Oct 87 to date June 87 to date
Starting During 1986
DS4
D$5
D$5
LE1
LEI
Starting During 1985
DS5
Bank of England
BP
De La Rue
Deloitte, Haskins & Sells Peat Marwick
Bank of England
ICI
Neville Russell
July 86 to date
July 86 to Sept 88 Sept 86 to Jan 89
Oct 86 to Aug 88 May 86 to July 88
Oct 85 to date Mar 85 to Aug 87 Nov 85 to May 87
DS6
DS6
Starting During 1984 DS5
BP
July 84 to July 86
Starting During 1983
DS4
Bank of England
Aug 83 to Aug 86
DS5
Bank of England
Dec 83 to Nov 85
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