Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 57560

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Civil Servants

Tabled: 4 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

John Cooper

ConservativeDumfries and Galloway

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many permanent civil servants in his Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers lis

Answer

Catherine West
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) operate a Directorate Flexible Resource (DFR) pool. The DFR is the FCDO's resourcing model for when staff are between substantive roles in our rotational model of home and overseas roles. The DFR off...

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