Sections · PESA departmental group
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: diplomacy and overseas aid. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £10.6bn on services. £1.0bn of it (9.5%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 9.5% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Not published for 2025-26
The FCDO published its spending over £25,000 for 2023-24 and most of 2024-25, and nothing for 2025-26 by 30 September 2026.
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£1.0bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 1 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
No payment records from this section are held for 2025-26.
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| General public services | £10.6bn | 100% |
| Social protection | £32m | 0% |