Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Staff

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Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 15th March 2016

a) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has 143 Senior Civil Servants based in London (representing 40% of the Department’s Senior Civil Servants);

b) The FCO has 2491 Civil Servants based in London (representing 54% of the Department’s Civil Servants).

These are headcount figures as at 31st December 2015.

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