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In April 2006, a new executive agency was established, FCO Services (now FCDO Services), to provide corporate service functions. [53] It moved to Trading Fund status in April 2008, so that it had the ability to provide services similar to those it already offers to the FCDO [ 54 ] to other government departments and even to outside businesses.
Outside Washington, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO; often commonly known simply as the Foreign Office) also maintains consulates-general in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and San Francisco, headed by consuls-general.
Until 1872, it was the practice of the Foreign Office to seek legal advice from the Law Officers of the Crown and from the Queen's Advocate General.That year, Sir Travers Twiss, the Queen's Advocate resigned, and the office lapsed, though from 1872 to 1886 Sir James Parker Deane discharged the functions of the office in relation to the Foreign Office.
British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation) [2] is the development finance institution of the UK government. [3] The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the organisation, and is the sole shareholder. [4]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific is a junior-level ministerial position in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of His Majesty's Government. The office was known as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from 2010 to 2020. [ 1 ]
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1965: Sir Paul Gore-Booth (also Head of the Diplomatic Service from 1968; later Lord Gore-Booth) 1969: Sir Denis Greenhill (later Lord Greenhill of Harrow) 1973: Sir Thomas Brimelow (later Lord Brimelow) 1975: Sir Michael Palliser; 1982: Sir Antony Acland; 1986: Sir Patrick Wright (later Lord Wright of Richmond)