The following response for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) includes information from FCO Services—a trading fund of the FCO.
In the last three months, two press or communication officers have been appointed. No further details can be provided, as to do so would allow these individuals to be identified.
It is possible that locally engaged press or communication officers have been hired within the last three months by the FCO's missions overseas, enabling us to engage better with people and Governments from other countries. However this information is not monitored centrally so it would incur disproportionate cost to collate.
No further contracts for press and communication services have been agreed in the last three months.