Question follow-through · 57560
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Civil Servants
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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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
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
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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11 Jun 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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