§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for each embassy, high commission and consulate the total number of staff employed.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe information requested is as follows. The list excludes staff, for example defence attaches, from other Government Departments attached to overseas missions who are not employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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United Kingdom staff Locally engaged staff Embassies Abidjan 7 8 Abu Dhabi 17 36 Addis Ababa 13 67 Aden 8 14 Algiers 11 18 Amman 23 30 Ankara 23 52 Antananarivo 2 6 Asuncion 3 7 Athens 28 56 Baghdad 24 50 Bahrain 10 24 Bangkok 32 84 Beirut 12 45 Belgrade 20 26 East Berlin 20 14 Berne 12 15 Bogota 8 26 Bonn 76 107 Brasilia 21 41 Brussels 36 74 Bucharest 20 21 Budapest 29 36 Cairo 35 93 Caracas 16 25 Copenhagen 19 36 Dakar 8 17 Damascus 15 20 Doha 9 14 Dubai 9 27 Dublin 20 24 The Hague 25 23 Hanoi 6 7 Havana 15 20 Helsinki 22 22 Islamabad 63 119 Jakarta 26 86 Jedda 43 88 Kabul 6 43 Kathmandu 10 27 Khartoum 23 31 Kinshasa 9 23 Kuwait 21 45 La Paz 5 10 Libreville 2 4 Lima 10 28 Lisbon 18 35 Luanda 9 10 Luxembourg 7 4 Madrid 31 48 Manila 11 29 Maputo 7 16 Mexico City 21 47 Mogadishu 6 16 Monrovia 4 15 Montevideo 8 17
United Kingdom staff Locally engaged staff Moscow 61 59 Muscat 16 31 Oslo 19 20 Panama 4 7 Paris 84 118 Peking 36 40 Prague 23 37 Pretoria 38 28 Quito 6 17 Rabat 10 17 Rangoon 8 46 Reykjavik 3 5 Rome 41 70 Sana'a 14 37 San Jose 5 8 Santiago 14 26 Santo Domingo 2 5 Seoul 15 38 Sofia 17 18 Stockholm 24 30 Tegucigalpa 3 4 Tel Aviv 20 31 Tokyo 47 86 Tripoli 19 29 Tunis 6 15 Ulan Bator 2 6 Vatican City 2 4 Vienna 28 36 Vientiane 2 8 Warsaw 42 57 Washington 110 142 Yaounde 8 9
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United Kingdom staff Locally engaged staff High Commissions Accra 22 43 Antigua 2 4 Bandar Seri Begawan 6 8 Banjul 5 21 Belmopan 6 9 Blantyre 1 8 Bridgetown 19 20 Canberra 25 40 Castries 1 3 Colombo 13 57 Dhaka 43 114 Dar Es Salaam 18 32 Freetown 9 32 Gaborone 8 13 Georgetown 8 11 Harare 29 25 Honiara 2 5 Kampala 10 26 Kingston 14 30 Kingstown 1 2 Kuala Lumpur 30 49 Lagos 52 120 Lilongwe 12 20 Lusaka 26 30 Maseru 6 11 Mbabane 7 12 Nairobi 37 65 Nassau 3 8 New Delhi 55 219 Nicosia 24 37 Nuku'alofa 2 7 Ottawa 20 55 Port Louis 7 14 Port Moresby 4 5 Port of Spain 12 27 Saint George's 1 3 Singapore 32 62 Suva 6 9 Kiribati 1 3 Valletta 9 22 Victoria 5 9
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United Kingdom staff Locally engaged staff Vila 2 4 Wellington 12 28 Deputy High Commissions Bombay 13 62 Calcutta 4 57 Kaduna 7 19 Madras 2 13 Consulates-General Alexandria 2 14 Amsterdam 3 15 Antwerp 1 3 Antlanta 4 15 Auckland 4 12 Barcelona 4 14 Berlin 3 11 Bilboa 1 7 Bordeaux 1 10 Boston 2 8 Brisbane 2 7 Casablanca 3 12 Chicago 6 21 Cleveland 2 9 Dusseldorf 9 33 Edmonton 3 5 Frankfurt 6 9 Geneva 3 10 Hamburg 7 24 Houston 4 17 Istanbul 8 38 Jerusalem 4 14 Johannesburg 11 52 Karachi 12 13 Lille 2 10 Los Angeles 5 28 Lyons 2 11 Marseilles 2 11 Melborne 4 13 Milan 8 13 Montreal 4 15 Munich 9 18 Naples 2 12 New York 28 115 Osaka 3 13 Perth 3 6 Rio de Janeiro 9 25 San Francisco 3 13 Sao Paulo 6 19 Stuttgart 5 16 Sydney 5 22 Toronto 4 17 Vancouver 2 11 Zagreb 4 10 Zurich 3 19 Consulates Algeciras — 4 Alicante 1 5 Capetown 5 22 Dallas 1 3 Douala 3 7 Durban 1 6 Florence 1 9 Genoa 1 7 Gothenburg 1 3 Halifax 1 3 Hanover 1 7 Las Palmas 1 6 Malaga — 7 Oporto 1 4 Palma 1 6 Port au Prince — 1 Salonika — 5 Seattle 1 4 Seville — 4 Venice — 5
United Kingdom staff Locally engaged staff Vigo — 3 Vice Consulates Cagliari — 3 Corfu — 5 Heraklion — 1 Ibiza — 2 Izmir — 2
§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will estimate for each embassy, high commission and consulate the number of inquiries it receives from members of the public.
§ Mr. WhitneyWe have no collective records on which to base estimates and the cost of maintaining such records would not be justified. The number of public inquiries and visitors is, of course, an important factor assessed by the diplomatic service inspectors when they scrutinise the staffing levels of overseas posts.