Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what information his Department holds on how many UK nationals (a) entered the EU Concours examination and (b) passed that examination in each year since 2010.

We do not hold complete information on the number of applicants and successes across all competitions. We are aware of 7,761 UK applicants across all competitions, of whom 188 were successful, since the new EU recruitment process launched in 2010.