Chuka Umunna – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2016-09-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many citizens of other EU countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.

Sir Alan Duncan

The Aliens’ Employment Act 1955 makes it an absolute requirement that all staff recruited to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on UK terms and conditions must be UK nationals. The FCO therefore employs UK-based staff who are UK Nationals, or dual nationals where one of those ​nationalities is the UK. Our executive agency, FCO Services, applies the same recruitment principles. Neither FCO nor FCO Services hold details of any additional nationality held by UK members of staff.

Other FCO agencies do not record the information centrally. However, our non departmental public bodies have a total of 10 EU nationals.