The proportion for judges has barely changed since the 1980s, despite the fact that only about 7% of the population attend fee-paying schools.
Though only 7% of British children overall attend fee-paying schools, and 15% at sixth form, they make up 39% of Cambridge undergraduates.
In May, the Guardian reported that although only 7% of British children attend fee-paying schools, students from private schools make up 39% of Cambridge undergraduates (at Oxford, the figure is 43.2%).
"She made her maiden speech in the same debate as me, speaking in defence of the assisted places scheme [under which the government paid for bright children to attend fee-charging schools], which Labour abolished.
Just 7% of all UK children attend fee-paying schools but 34% of new entrants to the banking sector who were educated in the UK had attended a fee-paying school, rising to almost 70% of new entrants in private equity.
The sensible and transparent resources standard topped up by loadings for evidence-based disadvantage that the Gonski panel recommended was designed to help close the gap between our most resourced students (most of whom attend fee-charging schools) and our least resourced.
Only 47% of those who attended fee-paying schools agreed.
Sixty per cent of government ministers, 54% of Conservative MPs and 40% of Liberal Democrat MPs attended fee-paying schools, compared with only 7% of the population.
More than one-third of MPs elected in 2010 attended fee-paying schools (the figure in the general adult population is less than 10%).
The Sutton Trust says the proportion of medallists who attended fee-paying schools was down four percentage points in Rio compared with London 2012.
According to its analysis, 32% of Britain's 130 medallists in Rio attended fee-paying schools, compared with 36% of Team GB's medal-winners in London.
