Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Labour Turnover

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
David Rutley Portrait
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 7th September 2023

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.

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