Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many women were employed by his Department in each year since 2018.

On 2 September 2020 the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office merged to become the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. The data below for 2018 and 2019 is separated into DfID and FCO data. The data for 2020 is FCDO.

The data below is taken from 31 December for each of the three years.

For DfID in 2018 there were 1543 women in 2018 and 1517 women in 2019.

For FCO in 2018 and 2019 there were between 2000-2499 women.

As of 31 December 2020 there are between 3500 and 3999 women in the FCDO.