Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to page 23 of her Department's Annual Report & Accounts: 2020-2021, HC 660, published on 22 September 2022, if she will publish the findings from the Government's prioritisation exercises for (a) legacy FCO activities using a Do/Do differently/Drop approach and (b) legacy DFID activities using a Gold/Silver/Bronze rating.

The onset of the COVID pandemic required both the former FCO and DFID to act quickly to reprioritise and redeploy staff onto new priority areas. This included delivering the largest peacetime repatriation of British nationals in UK history, and managing major financial contributions to the global effort to research and produce COVID diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Some workstreams were temporarily paused or slowed to allow staff to focus on the unprecedented challenge posed by COVID.