Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Reorganisation

(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many full-time equivalent staff have been working on the merger of the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in each month since January 2020.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The number of FTE equivalent staff working in the FCDO's Transformation Team on the merger of the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the subsequent consolidation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in each month since January 2020 is as follows.

Prior to the Prime Minister's 16 June 2020 announcement of the merger -

January 2020

February 2020

March 2020

April 2020

May 2020

June 2020

0

0

0

0

0

0

Subsequent to the Prime Minister's 16 June 2020 announcement of the merger -

June 2020

July 2020

August 2020

September 2020

October 2020

November 2020

December 2020

January 2021

11

40

44

47

49

53

58

64

Given the all-encompassing nature of the merger process, officials from across the full breadth of the FCDO also engage in the merger process as required. However, as officials are not asked to keep a detailed record of time spent on merger activity it is not possible to assess to how many FTE equivalent staff this time would equate.

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