Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Staff

(asked on 2nd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she will provide financial assistance for former staff of the Department for International Development who are non-UK citizens and wish to apply for (a) for UK citizenship or (b) a new role in her Department.


Answered by
Nigel Adams Portrait
Nigel Adams
This question was answered on 10th February 2021

Civil Service policy is that departments do not fund naturalisation application costs for staff. Existing non-UK national staff are still able to work in the FCDO and apply for new roles within agreed functions without applying for naturalisation or citizenship.

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