Official website (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office)
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sign in to saveAlso known as Foreign & Commonwealth Office, FCO, Foreign Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO, UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom
Key facts
- Formed
- 1782 ; 244 years ago ( 1782 ) (as the Foreign Office )
- Preceding agencies
- Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Department for International Development
- Jurisdiction
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- King Charles Street, London , Abercrombie House, East Kilbride
- Employees
- 8,098 (2024/25)
- Annual budget
- £8.172bn (resource) & £2.759bn (capital) in 2024–25
- Secretary of state responsible
- The Rt Hon. Yvette Cooper MP , Foreign Secretary
- Department executives
- Nick Dyer, Acting Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs and Head of HM Diplomatic Service Vacant, Second Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Affairs
- Child agencies
- FCDO Services Wilton Park
- Website
- gov .uk /fcdo
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Founded
- 1968
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Also known as
- FCO, Foreign Office
- Status
- Inactive
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Official website
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office - GOV.UK
We lead the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world. FCDO is a ministerial department, supported by 10 agencies and public bodies .
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Encyclopedic overview
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), or Foreign Office is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the government of the United Kingdom.
The office was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID). The FCO was itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office (FO) and the Commonwealth Office, with the Foreign Office itself initially being established in 1782. The department is responsible for representing and promoting British interests worldwide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.