Speeches

Jonathan Ashworth – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jonathan Ashworth on 2016-04-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of his Department resigned in each of the last six years.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

In the past six years, 334 officials resigned from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The breakdown is as follows:

Resignations

Resignations as %

2010/11

67

1.4%

2011/12

83

1.8%

2012/13

43

0.9%

2013/14

46

1.0%

2014/15

48

1.1%

2015/16

47

1.1%

The figures do not include staff recruited locally by our Missions overseas.