Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will set out her Department's forecast of (a) its total FTE and (b) the change in its FTE complement for each of the UK’s embassies and consulates in the Indo-Pacific region, broken down by (i) embassy and (ii) consulate for each year in the next five-year period.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is forecasting to have the following Full Time Equivalent (FTE) numbers on 31 March 2023, these figures are the FTE caps in place because of last year’s business planning and the Spending Review (SR) settlement for the regions requested. The caps are applied to the entire region.

DIT has commenced its annual business planning round which will set resource plans for 2023-24 and provide indicative plans for 2024-25 and 2025-26 only, therefore we are unable to provide five year forecasts and breakdowns.