Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many civil servants in his Department are part of the Government Commercial Function; and how many of those civil servants have been seconded (a) outside the Government and (b) in from outside the Government in each year since 2012.

We currently have fewer than five officers working at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that are part of the Government Commercial Function. We are therefore unable to confirm the precise numbers as this might enable individual identities to be revealed.