Worldwide improvement and Overseas Workplace to merge

The federal government division accountable for abroad help is to be merged with the Overseas Workplace (FCO), the BBC understands.

The transfer to mix the Division for Worldwide Growth (DFID) and the FCO follows a assessment into UK help spending by crossbench peer Lord Bew.

Boris Johnson is predicted to substantiate the transfer, lengthy mooted in Conservative circles, within the Commons later.

The departments have shared a staff of ministers since a February reshuffle.