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<p>A) Consultants</p><p>The data that the FCO holds on consultancy projects is tracked
by project rather than by individual. Consultants are not always appointed as individuals,
rather the project in question is delivered via a company, which allocates the work
to experts according to requirements. It is not therefore possible to provide, at
proportionate cost, data on the number of consultants recruited to work at the FCO
in the last three years. We can however confirm that the FCO has spent the following
on consultancy projects in the last three years:</p><p>Financial Year 2015/16 - £1.1m<br>Financial
Year 2014/15 - £1.6m<br>Financial Year 2013/14 - £1.5m</p><p>The FCO’s consultancy
expenditure is primarily for specialist advice that supports our diplomacy and where
‘in-house’ expertise is not available, such as de-mining surveys.</p><p>B) Secondments</p><p>With
regards to staff on loan from other Government Departments and those seconded from
the private sector, the numbers are as follows, based on the year the loan started:</p><p>In
2016 (to date) 147 Civil Servants, 1 public servant, and 1 secondee from the private
sector have joined the FCO on loan.</p><p>In 2015, 161 Civil Servants, and 3 public
servants joined the FCO on loan. There were no secondments from the private sector.</p><p>In
2014, 149 Civil Servants, 1 public servant and 1 secondee from the private sector
joined the FCO on loan.</p><p>Due to the small numbers of loans from individual organisations,
it is not possible to give a breakdown of all the organisations from which they were
loaned, without risking identification of individuals in breach of data protection
rules. However the largest numbers of officers loaned to the FCO in all three years
came from:</p><p>2016 2015 2014<br>DFID 21 25 11<br>Home Office 20 20 20<br>Cabinet
Office 10 9 20<br>HM Treasury 11 11 10<br>MOD 13 14 12<br>BIS 14 12 14<br>DECC 12
4 10<br>MOJ 6 14 9</p><p>Fewer than five individuals a year were loaned from any other
department. The public servants loaned to the FCO were all Parliamentary staff or
Police Officers.</p>
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