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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Termination of Employment

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled Answered 18 November 2025UIN 89586

The question

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.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

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 could therefore only be collated and verified for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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