Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information their Department holds on the level of staff retention; and what steps they are taking to improve staff retention.
For all people leaving the FCDO, the FCDO records their leaving date and their leaving reason from a set list of options. This informs FCDO turnover rates. While some staff turnover is natural and appropriate, to prevent undesirable departures the FCDO is investing in staff retention through a variety of actions, including its implementation of the 2023 FCDO pay award for UK Based Staff (UKBS) and Country Based Staff (CBS), its ongoing development of a capability framework to support staff career planning, and its ongoing organisational responses to the 2022 Civil Service People Survey results for the FCDO.