Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 20 September 2024.
Rupert Lowe
Reform UK, Great Yarmouth
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many positions in his Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job was in each of those years.
Catherine West
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
FCDO does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost.
Information on spending and staffing can be found in the Department's annual report and accounts.
Yes9 people think so
No5 people think not
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