Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has rules regarding officials having sexual relationships with subordinate staff, including interns; and if so, whether those rules apply to secondees to international organisations where that organisation has no such rules.

All Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) staff are subject to the Civil Service Code, and expected to meet the standards of behaviour set down in the Department's internal safeguarding policy. It is for their managers to determine whether an individual's conduct meets, or falls short of, those requirements, and what action may be required as a result.