§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the British embassies and high commissions in existence in 1975 in the order of the cost of their operation in that year, showing in each case the costs incurred.
§ Mr. TomlinsonThe information is as follows:
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Embassy/High Commission Annual cost (£ millions) Washington 3.68 Paris 2.95 Bonn 2.39 Tokyo 2.19 Brussels 1.47 Lagos 1.40 New Delhi 1.30 Tehran 1.13 Rome 1.12 Moscow 1.10 Nicosia 1.07 Ottawa 0.95 Nairobi 0.94 Vienna 0.92 Islamabad 0.88 Canberra 0.86 Singapore 0.86 Warsaw 0.80 Dacca 0.78 Beirut 0.77 Madrid 0.77 Jakarta 0.74 Kuala Lumpur 0.74 Jedda 0.72 Athens 0.70 Copenhagen 0.67 Stockholm 0.67 The Hague 0.66 Ankara 0.60 Kuwait 0.59 Pretoria 0.59 Bangkok 0.58 Mexico City 0.58 Caracas 0.57 Tel Aviv 0.57 Brasilia 0.56 Cairo 0.56 Kingston 0.55 Helsinki 0.54 Peking 0.52 Budapest 0.51 Accra 0.50 Kinshasa 0.50 Lisbon 0.48 Belgrade 0.47 East Berlin 0.47 Oslo 0.47 Baghdad 0.45 Buenos Aires 0.45
Embassy/High Commission Annual cost (£ millions) Berne 0.43 Lusaka 0.43 Prague 0.42 Abu Dhabi 0.40 Addis Ababa 0.40 Port of Spain 0.40 Wellington 0.40 Muscat 0.39 Seoul 0.39 Khartoum 0.38 Tripoli 0.37 Kampala 0.37 Amman 0.36 Bucharest 0.34 Dar es Salaam 0.34 Dublin 0.34 Havana 0.34 Santiago 0.33 Colombo 0.32 Lima 0.32 Sofia 0.32 Lilongwe 0.31 Bridgetown 0.29 Manila 0.28 Algiers 0.27 Dakar 0.27 Georgetown 0.27 Gaborone 0.26 Freetown 0.25 Nassau 0.24 Bogota 0.23 Sana'a 0.23 Yaounde 0.23 Vientiane 0.23 Damascus 0.22 Port Louis 0.22 Valletta 0.22 Bahrain 0.21 Hanoi 0.21 Abidjan 0.20 Doha 0.20 La Paz 0.20 Luxembourg 0.20 Rangoon 0.20 Kabul 0.19 Montevideo 0.19 Panama City 0.19 Aden 0.18 Mbabane 0.17 Rabat 0.17 Quito 0.17 Kathmandu 0.16 Port Moresby 0.16 Suva 0.16 Tunis 0.16 Banjul 0.14 Brunei 0.14 Maseru 0.14 Monrovia 0.14 Maputo 0.13 Mogadishu 0.13 San Jose 0.11 Santa Domingo 0.11 Asuncion 0.10 Managua 0.10 Reykjavik 0.10 San Salvador 0.10 Ulan Bator 0.09 Tananarive 0.08 Nuku'alofa 0.04 Note: Costings are based on annual figures.