Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development headcount on 31st October 2022 was 7237. The combined headcount of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development on 31st January 2020 was 8015.