Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Universal Credit

(asked on 19th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of staff employed by is Department who are in receipt of universal credit; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Alan Duncan Portrait
Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 26th October 2018

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has made no assessment of the number or proportion of staff employed by the FCO who may be in receipt of universal credit. This information is not needed by the FCO for employment purposes.​

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