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.
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.