Question follow-through · 89586
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Termination of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff in her Department left employment in the last 12 months following formal (a) performance and (b) capability procedures.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of staff in her Department left employment in the last 12 months following formal (a) performance and (b) capability procedures.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office's total staff headcount is approximately 17,500 employees, working in hundreds of different locations around the world, many with locally-managed HR arrangements and procedures. The requested information ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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