Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 100978

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Career Development

Tabled: 17 December 2025

Answered: 9 January 2026

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff were promoted (a) in-grade and (b) to a higher grade in the last year broken down by (i) performance marking in the previous year and (i

Answer

Seema Malhotra

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office employs approximately 17,500 staff across hundreds of locations worldwide, many of which operate with locally managed HR arrangements and procedures. While we are able to say that around 15 per cent of thes...

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