Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many members of his Department's executive board are (a) male and (b) female.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Management Board consists of 9 executive and 2 non-executive members. The gender breakdown is a) 5 male and 4 female executive board members and b)1 male and 1 female non-executive board members. Due to the small number of Board members, ethnicity information is classed as “sensitive personal data” under section 2(e) of the Data Protection Act 1998.