Mr Hammond also said that the resignation of Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds, announced on Monday, was unrelated to policy.
Some pin Howrey's demise on its rush to spend on foreign offices while betting heavily on antitrust law just as M&A was falling off a cliff.
A commons question, from an SNP MP, asking about Britain's position on Rajab, elicited a reponse on Monday from foreign office minister Tobias Ellwood.
In February the foreign secretary, William Hague, revealed at an international conference on security that Foreign Office computers were hit by data-stealing malware.
At £1.5 billion ($2.5 billion) and falling, Britain spends much less on the Foreign Office than on subsidising pensioners' heating.
On Monday the foreign office minister Alistair Burt made a final, fruitless attempt to persuade the human rights groups to come back on board.
On Thursday the foreign office minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, said Iran's mistreatment of the opposition leaders and their family members demonstrated "a cynical attempt" to suppress them in defiance of the country's obligations under international law.
The MPs say that on 18 January Foreign Office officials were made aware of rumours Mr Heywood's death may not have been due to alcohol poisoning.
A high court in Lahore is scheduled to hear an opinion by the Pakistani foreign office on Thursday on the question of immunity for Mr. Davis.
The Pakistani government summoned the American ambassador, Anne W. Patterson, to the foreign office on Thursday and formally complained about the commando raid on Wednesday.
3.57pm GMT Here's a statement from the Ukraine foreign office on the Russian incursion.
