Ian Lavery – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Lavery on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether any former officials of his Department have taken employment with Rio Tinto plc in the last five years.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

The FCO does not hold details of employment taken up by former officials unless they have been subject to the business appointment rules. Records kept under the business appointment rules covering the last 3 years (2012 – 2014) show that no former members of staff have left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to join Rio Tinto plc.