Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2008-09 - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents


Letter to the Chairman of the Committee from Sir Peter Ricketts KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

2009 FCO STAFF SURVEY RESULTS

  I wrote to you ahead of the oral evidence session in December 2009 giving you the headlines from the recent all staff survey, in which all major government departments participated. I am now writing to give you the detailed results: a copy of the main report is attached.[16]

The survey results are largely very positive. As you will see, the FCO performs well compared to the average scores across the Civil Service, particularly in areas such as leadership and change management. Our overall results put us at the top of the table of the large departments (those with over 10,000 staff).

  The news is not all good. We have not, for example, yet significantly reduced the reported incidence of bullying and harassment among our staff. We will do more work to analyse the results here and elsewhere, and to tackle the issues identified in the survey.

  We have made the results available to all our staff; and will also be publishing them on the FCO website.

3 February 2010







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