Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department had caring responsibilities in each of the last five years.

From the 2019 Civil Service People Survey, 2,855 employees in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated that they had caring responsibilities. This is from 11,466 respondents (85% of the organisation). Data on caring responsibilities previous to 2019 is not held centrally and to compile it would incur disproportionate cost.