Dear Sir or Madam,

Can you provide the number of job vacancies that were externally
advertised by the department broken down between April 07 to April
08 and between 1st April 2008 to 30th June 2008.

Yours faithfully,

Gavin Starky

Dear Mr Starky

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

We received your request on 13 August 2008 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours

Samuel Osei-Wusu
Information Management Group
Information Rights Team

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Dear Mr Starky,

Please see the attached response to your Freedom of Information Request.

Regards,

Ruth

Ruth Slater | Deputy Open Government Liaison Officer/ HR Directorate | OAB 2/98a | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | London SW1A 2AF * email: [email address] ( telephone: +44 20 7008 1361 |fax: +44 20 7008 1364| ) FTN: 8008 1361

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