Information Department (Hansard, 6 March 1991)

§ Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the number of staff working in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's information department and the expenditure of the information department for each year since 1983; and if he will break down these figures into (i) guidance and

£ million
	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91²
Publications	2.5	2.4	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.7	2.9
Overseas Press including Guidance and Verbatims	5.4	5.3	4.2	3.9	3.5	3.2	3.5
Information Policy and Administration	2.3	2.4	2.2	2.9	2.6	2.3	2.3
Overseas Visitors and London Correspondents' Service	4.1	4.3	4.9	5.1	4.8	5.3	5.6
Wilton Park	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	³0.6	³0.6	³0.4
Exhibitions	2.0	1.9	1.8	2.0	1.8	2.8	3.2
Films, Television and Radio	3.2	2.8	4.0	4.0	3.7	4.5	4.1
Sub Total	19.6	19.2	19.4	20.1	19.2	21.4	22.0
BBC World Service	81.0	90.0	102.4	102.0	121.1	126.0	147.3
Total	100.6	109.2	121.8	122.1	140.3	147.4	169.3

200W

	FCO (Dip Wing)	FCO (ODA Wing)
1982–83	229,711	135,506
1983–84	205,247	252,691
1984–85	149,932	234,050
1985–86	160,535	271,084
1986–87	335,754	228,347
1987–88	195,000	351,000
1988–89	289,184	714,000
1989–90	395,782	1,048,000
1990–91	948,000	972,000

Expenditure on press and public relations from 1983–84 to 1989–90 and the estimate for the current year are as follows:

verbatims, (ii) publications, (iii) overseas press, (iv) information policy and administration, (v) overseas visitors and London correspondents' service (vi) BBC World Service and Wilton Park (vii) exhibitions and (viii) films, television and radio.

Year	Number
1983	66
1984	59
1985	59
1986	57
1987	58
1988	55
1989	52½
1990	52½
1991	¹ 128