Official website (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-development-office)
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y de la Mancomunidad de Naciones
Also 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
Connections
Categories
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