Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what proportion of senior civil servants from his Department are from a lower socio-economic background.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

Information on the socio-economic background of all our staff is not centrally held and to compile it would incur disproportionate cost.

The FCO takes part in a number of schemes to encourage applicants from a lower socio-economic background.