Written Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office·UIN 120600

Middle East: Research

Tabled: 13 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026

Question

John McDonnell

LabourHayes and Harlington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of proposed staff cuts of staff employed as research analysts in the Middle East, in the context of the developing situation

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The FCDO2030 reform programme is designed to ensure the department is able to rise to the challenges of a rapidly changing world, and a constrained fiscal environment. This is an unprecedented transformation, driven by the objective to become a more agile...

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