HC Deb 22 June 1993 vol 227 cc82-5W
Mr. Nigel Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many(a) diplomats and (b) trade representatives there are in each United Kingdom diplomatic post overseas.

Mr. Goodlad

The total number of United Kingdom diplomats (with the rank of second secretary and above) serving in United Kingdom diplomatic posts overseas is 1,263.

The total number of trade representatives at these posts, including locally engaged staff, is 451.

A breakdown of the figures by post is as follows:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomatic post overseas
Country Post Number of diplomats Trade representatives1
Albania Tirana 1.0 0
Algeria Algiers 7.0 1
Angola Luanda 6.0 2
Antigua Antigua 1.0 0

Country Post Number of diplomats Trade representatives1
Argentina Buenos Aires 8.0 3
Australia Brisbane 2.0 2
Australia Canberra 11.0 0
Australia Melbourne 3.0 5
Australia Perth 2.0 3
Australia Sydney 3.0 3
Austria Vienna 10.0 3
Austria Vienna CFE 5.0 0
Austria Vienna UKMIS 4.0 0
Azerbaijan Baku 2.0 0
British Virgin Tortola 1.0 0
Isles
Bahamas Nassau 2.0 1
Bahrain Bahrain 5.0 0
Bangladesh Dhaka 11.0 1
Barbados Bridgetown 5.0 1
Barbados DT Secretar 2.0 0
Belarus Minsk 1.0 0
Belgium Brussels 11.0 5
Belgium Brussels JMO 4.0 0
Belgium Brussels UKDL 9.0 0
Belgium Brussels UKRP 39.0 1
Belize Belmopan 2.0 0
Bolivia La Paz 2.0 1
Botswana Gaborone 3.0 1
Brazil Brasilia 8.0 0
Brazil Rio de Janeiro 2.0 3
Brazil Sao Paulo 3.0 5
Brunei Ban Sen Beg 3.0 0
Bulgaria Sofia 7.0 0
Burma Rangoon 2.0 1
Cambodia Phnom Penh 3.0 0
Cameroon Douala 1.0 2
Cameroon Yaounde 2.0 0
Canada Montreal 3.0 4
Canada Ottawa 8.0 3
Canada Toronto 3.0 6
Canada Vancouver 2.0 2
Chile Santiago 8.0 4
China Peking 17.0 7
China Shanghai 2.0 1
Colombia Bogota 5.0 1
Costa Rica San Jose 2.0 2
Croatia Zagreb 4.0 1
Croatia Zagreb ECMM 1.0 0
Cuba Havana 4.0 0
Cyprus Nicosia 11.0 3
Czechoslovakia Prague 11.0 5
Denmark Copenhagen 10.0 5
Ecuador Quito 3.0 2
Egypt Alexandria 1.0 0
Egypt Cairo 13.0 4
El Salvador San Salvador 1.0 1
Estonia Tallinn 1.0 0
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 5.0 1
Falklands Stanley 1.0 0
Fiji Suva 2.0 1
Finland Helsinki 8.0 4
France Bordeaux 1.0 1
France Lille 1.0 1
France Lyons 1.0 2
France Marseilles 1.0 1
France Paris 33.0 10
France Paris OECD 6.0 0
France Strasbourg 2.0 0
Gambia Banjul 2.0 0
Germany Berlin 12.0 4
Germany Bonn 25.0 0
Germany Dusseldorf 7.0 7
Germany Frankfurt 3.0 3
Germany Hamburg 2.0 2
Germany Munich 4.0 3
Germany Stuttgart 1.0 2
Ghana Accra 10.0 2
Gibraltar Gibraltar 2.0 0
Greece Athens 11.0 4
Grenada St. George's 1.0 0

Country Post Number of diplomats Trade representatives1
Guatemala Guatemala City 3.0 1
Guyana Georgetown 2.0 0
Holy See Vatican City 2.0 0
Honduras Tegucigalpa 1.0 0
Hong Kong Hong Kong BTC 11.0 4
Hong Kong Hong Kong CTU 2.1 3
Hong Kong Hong Kong JLG 3.0 0
Hungary Budapest 9.0 5
Iceland Reykjavik 2.0 0
India Bombay 7.0 5
India Calcutta 2.0 2
India Madras 2.0 3
India New Delhi 21.0 5
Indonesia Jakarta 14.0 5
Iran Tehran 8.0 2
Iraq Baghdad 4.0 0
Ireland Dublin 9.0 3
Israel Tel Aviv 7.0 3
Italy Florence 1.0 1
Italy Milan 5.0 8
Italy Naples 2.0 1
Italy Rome 17.0 3
Ivory Coast Abidjan 3.0 2
Jamaica Kingston 5.0 1
Japan Osaka 3.0 5
Japan Tokyo 23.0 14
Jerusalem Jerusalem 2.0 0
Jordan Amman 7.0 1
Kazakhstan Alma Ata 2.0 0
Kenya Nairobi 16.0 3
Kiribati Tarawa 1.0 0
Korea Seoul 9.0 9
Kuwait Kuwait 10.0 4
Latvia Riga 2.0 0
Lebanon Beirut 2.0 1
Lesotho Maseru 3.0 0
Libya Tripoli 1.0 0
Lithuania Vilnius 2.0 0
Luxembourg Luxembourg 2.0 0
Macedonia Skopje 1.0 0
Madagascar Antananarivo 2.0 0
Malawi Lilongwe 5.0 0
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 9.0 6
Malta Valletta 4.0 1
Mauritius Port Louis 2.0 0
Mexico Mexico City 10.0 5
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 2.0 0
Montserrat Plymouth 1.0 0
Morocco Casablanca 2.0 2
Morocco Rabat 4.0 0
Mozambique Maputo 6.0 0
Namibia Windhoek 3.0 0
Nepal Kathmandu 5.0 0
Netherlands Amsterdam 2.0 0
Netherlands The Hague 13.0 5
New Zealand Auckland 2.0 3
New Zealand Wellington 8.0 2
Nicaragua Managua 1.0 0
Nigeria Abuja 4.0 2
Nigeria Kaduna 2.0 2
Nigeria Lagos 17.0 5
Norway Oslo 10.0 3
Oman Muscat 6.0 3
Pakistan Islamabad 21.0 3
Pakistan Karachi 4.0 3
Panama Panama City 1.0 1
Papua New Port Moresby 2.0 0
Guinea
Paraguay Asuncion 2.0 1
Peru Lima 4.0 1
Philippines Manila 7.0 3
Poland Warsaw 12.0 3
Portugal Lisbon 11.0 5
Portugal Oporto 1.0 1
Qatar Doha 3.0 3
Romania Bucharest 8.0 2
Russia Moscow 26.0 6

Country Post Number of diplomats Trade representatives1
Russia St. Petersburg 3.0 1
Saudi Arabia Al Khobar 2.0 1
Saudi Arabia Jedda 4.0 3
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 13.0 8
Senegal Dakar 2.0 0
Seychelles Victoria 2.0 0
Sierra Leone Freetown 2.0 0
Singapore Singapore 8.0 5
Slovakia Bratislava 2.0 0
Slovenia Ljubljana 1.0 0
Solomon Islands Honiara 2.0 0
South Africa Cape Town 4.0 2
South Africa Durban 1.0 1
South Africa Johannesburg 8.0 6
South Africa Pretoria 11.0 0
Spain Barcelona 2.0 3
Spain Bilbao 1.0 3
Spain Madrid 19.0 8
Spain Malaga 1.0 0
Spain Palma 1.0 0
Sri Lanka Colombo 7.0 2
St. Lucia Castries 1.0 0
St. Vincent Kingstown 1.0 0
Sudan Khartoum 4.0 1
Swaziland Mbabane 2.0 0
Sweden Stockholm 10.0 5
Switzerland Berne 6.0 1
Switzerland Geneva CG 7.0 1
Switzerland Geneva UKDEL 3.0 0
Switzerland Geneva UKMIS 10.0 0
Switzerland Zurich 2.0 6
Syria Damascus 6.0 1
Taiwan Taipei Attc 3.0 4
Tanzania Dar Es Salaam 7.0 0
Thailand Bangkok 13.0 8
Tonga Nuku'alofa 1.0 0
Trinidad Port of Spain 3.0 2
Tunisia Tunis 5.0 0
Turkey Ankara 10.0 3
Turkey Istanbul 5.0 5
Turks/Caicos Grand Turk 1.0 0
U. A. Emirates Abu Dhabi 7.0 3
U. A. Emirates Dubai 5.0 3
Uganda Kampala 7.0 0
Ukraine Kiev 6.0 0

Country GDP growth 1988–92 British exports 1992 £ million Export league position 1992 Percentage of British exports 1992 Percentage change British trade representation 1988–92
Thailand 10.17 476 34 0.40 +79.0
Maldives 9.51 4 160 0.00 1
Malaysia 9.09 635 28 0.60 -3.2
Belize 8.80 11 127 0.01 2
Singapore 8.06 1,145 19 1.10 -9.9
South Korea 7.96 654 27 0.60 +35.2
China 7.90 429 36 0.40 +32.5
United Arab Emirates 7.20 926 23 0.90 2
Chile 7.14 125 57 0.10 -1.6
Botswana 6.94 20 105 0.02 -16.0
Source: IMF.
1 No local representation.
2 No change.

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