Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2020 to Question 103495 on Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Reorganisation, what estimate he has made of the costs to date of the merger of his Department with the Department for International Development.

Work on the estimates of the costs of the merger is in hand and, as advised in my response to her previous question 103495, initial figures will be published in the FCDO's Annual Report and Accounts for 2020-21.