Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the figures supplied by her Department for the Cabinet Office’s weekly publication of civil service headquarters occupancy data, what estimate of the daily capacity of the King Charles Street office was used to calculate the percentage of employees working in that building since February 2022.

From February 2022 until, and including, week commencing 10 July 2022 the desk capacity used was 3,200.

With effect from week commencing 17 July 2022, the desk capacity was reassessed and a revised figure of 3,029 has been used for desk capacity.