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date	06/09/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) consultants and (b) seconded staff (i) are working and (ii) have been recruited to work at his Department in the last three years; and from which (A) companies, (B) departments and (C) other organisations such staff were recruited or seconded.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	45153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <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> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 12/09/2016 15:06:10 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

576823

registered interest
date	06/09/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many of his Department's staff have resigned in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	45229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text Thirty eight UK-based staff have resigned from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the last six months. Details are not held centrally for local staff. answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 12/09/2016 14:59:32 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron