Speeches

Tim Farron – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Farron on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many staff of his Department’s resigned in each half of each year since 2010.

Sir Alan Duncan

The following table contains the numbers of UK-based staff that have resigned from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in each six month period since 2010:

FY

Six month period

Resignations

FY Total

2010/11

April – September 2010

22

61

October 2010 – March 2011

39

2011/12

April – September 2011

43

70

October 2011 – March 2012

27

2012/13

April – September 2012

35

53

October 2012 – March 2013

18

2013/14

April – September 2013

29

46

October 2013 – March 2014

17

2014/15

April – September 2014

17

48

October 2014 – March 2015

31

2015/16

April – September 2015

23

47

October 2015 – March 2016

24

2016

April – September 2016

34

34

Details are not held centrally for local staff.