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Written Question
Conditions of Employment
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff in his Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.

Answered by Tobias Ellwood

The number of staff in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its executive agencies and associated bodies engaged off-payroll for the last five years are stated in the table below. Our figure for 2014/15 is from 1st April 2014 to 28th February 2015¹.

Year FCO
2014/15 544¹
2013/14 618
2012/13 666
2011/12 534
2010/11 467

Contingent Labour figures have been published since October 2013 as part of the FCO Workforce Management Information and are available at http://data.gov.uk/dataset/fco-workforce-management-information.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Apr 2014
LGBT Rights (Uganda)

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LGBT Rights (Uganda)

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