Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will wait for the publication of the Integrated Review before conducting any staffing restructures following the merger of his Department and the Department for International Development.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was formed on 2 September and work is already underway to fully bed-in the merger, including on staff structures. This work will take account of the decision to move to a one-year Spending Review and the ongoing Integrated Review.