Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many FTE staff work primarily on the administration, commissioning and oversight of ODA programmes in the FCDO and other government departments; and what the annual staffing cost of those officials is.

At the end of September, the available data identified 968 individuals working in teams delivering Overseas Development Aid (ODA) or blended programmes (we have moderate confidence in this data). The annual staffing costs of these individuals is £82.6 million. This figure does not comprehensively include staff involved in the administration or commissioning of ODA, and does not include staff in other government departments. Other government departments are responsible for their own staffing information and need to be approached directly.