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Foreign Office: Personnel

Volume 698: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008

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Lord Blaker

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What is the total number of personnel serving in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. [HL1447]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(Lord Malloch-Brown)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) resource accounts for 2006-07 give the total number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the FCO in the UK and overseas as 17,107. This total includes locally-recruited staff employed by our posts overseas.