Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many of the 219 employees who have left his Department since October 2020 were former staff of the (a) Department for International Development and (b) Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

FCDO leavers data is not currently published externally. As part of the FCDO's annual report & accounts, we expect to publish the change in the FCDO's headcount and average FTE for the financial year 2020-21.