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.
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.