John Pugh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Pugh on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of staff on the payroll of his Department who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.

Sir Alan Duncan

The Aliens’ Employment Act 1955 makes it a requirement that all UK based staff recruited to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the UK must be British nationals or dual nationals where one of those nationalities is British.