Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many officials in his Department have a primary responsibility of dealing with the news media; and what the (a) grades and (b) job descriptions are of those officials.
As of 15 September 2018, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Media Office had 24 members of staff:
a) These range from Assistant Press Officer to Head of News.
b) The role of the team is to support the media output of the Foreign Secretary and junior Ministers' departmental work. Teams divide responsibility by geographical regions and support Ministers accordingly.