A question on #ForeignCommonwealthAndDevelopmentOffice #CivilServants tabled by John Cooper on 04-06-2025 has been answered by Catherine West.

Heading: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Civil Servants
Question ID: 1809456
UIN: 57560
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-06-04
Asking Member ID: 5358
Asking Member display name: John Cooper
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Asking Member Twitter reference: John Cooper
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Question text: 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
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Date answered: 2025-06-11
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Answering Member ID: 4523
Answering Member display name: Catherine West
Answering Member handle: catherinewest1
Answering Member Twitter reference: @catherinewest1
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Answer text: 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...
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Answering body ID: 208
Answering body name: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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