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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Civil Servants

Commons · Question 57560 · Tabled 4 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 11 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by John Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many permanent civil servants in his Department are staff without assigned posts; and how many are placed in an equivalent (a) people action team, (b) priority movers lis

Answer

Answered by Catherine West, 11 Jun 2025

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) operate a Directorate Flexible Resource (DFR) pool. The DFR is the FCDO's resourcing model for when staff are between substantive roles in our rotational model of home and overseas roles. The DFR off...