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Mr. Fatchett
Overseas posts' budgets, including entertainment budgets, are devolved to each post. No central record is kept of detailed budget allocations for each post, and they could only be provided at excessive cost. However, central records are kept of posts expenditure, and the figures for 1997–98 are set out below.
| Post |
Spend 1997–98 |
| Abidjan |
12,575 |
| Abu Dhabi |
30,398 |
| Abuja |
5,920 |
| Accra |
24,015 |
| Addis Ababa |
16,239 |
| Alexandria |
9,845 |
| Algiers |
5,972 |
| Almaty |
9,917 |
| Amman |
38,907 |
| Amsterdam |
13,655 |
| Anguilla |
11,187 |
| Ankara |
33,882 |
| Antananarivo |
2,375 |
| Ashgabat |
15,311 |
| Asuncion |
5,726 |
| Athens |
73,370 |
| Atlanta |
56,803 |
| Auckland |
31,784 |
| Aus Africa: Rmo |
1135 |
| Bahrain |
13,249 |
| Baku |
2,704 |
| Bandar Seri Begawan |
15,475 |
| Bangkok |
59,262 |
| Banjul |
5,354 |
| Barcelona (Inc. Andorra) |
24,902 |
| Beirut |
16,285 |
| Belgrade |
35,446 |
| Belmopan |
6,536 |
| Berlin |
77,693 |
| Berne |
70,812 |
| Bilbao |
3,706 |
| Bogota (Inc. Medellin) |
15,947 |
| Bombay |
30,388 |
| Bonn |
132,293 |
| Bordeaux |
28,988 |
| Boston |
43,673 |
| Brasilia |
49,634 |
| Bratislava |
12,336 |
| Bridgetown |
45,025 |
| Brisbane |
39,013 |
| Brussels |
2394,845 |
| Brussels Jmo |
408 |
| Bucharest |
19,988 |
| Budapest |
35,710 |
| Buenos Aires |
78,205 |
| Cairo |
69,343 |
| Calcutta |
13,637 |
| Canberra |
59,207 |
| Cape Town |
15,418 |
| Caracas |
28,265 |
| Casablanca |
15,040 |
| Castries |
11,551 |
| Chicago |
41,899 |
| Cleveland |
14,792 |
| Colombo (Inc. Maldives) |
26,599 |
| Conakry (Bhc Freetown) |
246 |
| Copenhagen (Inc. Torshavn) |
37,389 |
| Dakar (Inc. Conakry) |
15,422 |
680W
| Post |
Spend 1997–98 |
| Damascus |
19,916 |
| Dar Es Salaam |
18,810 |
| Dhaka |
26,918 |
| Doha |
21,844 |
| Dubai |
67,820 |
| Dublin |
40,379 |
| Durban |
5,512 |
| Dusseldorf |
19,213 |
| Ekaterinburg |
15,849 |
| Frankfurt |
33,477 |
| Freetown |
3,238 |
| Gaborone |
5,162 |
| Geneva Cg |
3218,055 |
| Georgetown |
8,598 |
| Gibraltar |
41,087 |
| Grand Cayman |
1,589 |
| Grand Turk |
4,866 |
| Guangzhou |
17,204 |
| Guatemala City |
8,097 |
| Hamburg |
54,777 |
| Hanoi |
22,445 |
| Harare |
22,839 |
| Havana |
27,426 |
| Helsinki |
48,769 |
| Ho Chi Minh City |
25,380 |
| Hong Kong Btc |
90,105 |
| Honiara |
342 |
| Houston |
65,068 |
| Islamabad |
59,998 |
| Istanbul |
33,140 |
| Jakarta |
65,308 |
| Jedda |
67,547 |
| Jerusalem |
12,557 |
| Johannesburg |
36,787 |
| Kabul |
146 |
| Kampala |
18,387 |
| Karachi |
14,475 |
| Kathmandu |
10,228 |
| Khartoum |
13,224 |
| Kiev |
24,655 |
| Kigali |
4,380 |
| Kingston |
24,732 |
| Kingstown |
7,491 |
| Kinshasa |
9,222 |
| Kuala Lumpur |
69,053 |
| Kuwait |
28,793 |
| La Paz |
9,967 |
| Lagos (Inc. Cotonou) |
48,987 |
| Lille |
28,710 |
| Lilongwe (Inc. Blantyre) |
14,526 |
| Lima |
31,047 |
| Lisbon |
74,361 |
| Ljubljana |
13,462 |
| Los Angeles |
24,369 |
| Luanda |
20,448 |
| Lusaka |
24,986 |
| Luxembourg |
15,170 |
| Lyon |
38,213 |
| Madras |
16,691 |
| Madrid |
130,255 |
| Managua |
13,432 |
| Manila |
28,010 |
| Maputo |
9,953 |
| Marseilles |
37,093 |
| Maseru |
3,987 |
| Mbabane |
4,766 |
| Melbourne |
50,336 |
| Mexico City |
44,683 |
| Milan |
31,621 |
| Minsk |
4,459 |
| Montevideo |
13,920 |
| Montreal |
36,387 |
| Moscow |
151,364 |
| Munich |
44,061 |
681W
| Post |
Spend 1997–98 |
| Muscat |
42,543 |
| Nairobi |
43,896 |
| Naples |
23,650 |
| Nassau |
11,063 |
| New Delhi |
155,005 |
| New York Cg |
4259,174 |
| Nicosia |
76,269 |
| Nuku'Alofa |
1,168 |
| Osaka |
121,138 |
| Oslo |
42,416 |
| Ottawa |
60,570 |
| Palma |
10,904 |
| Panama City |
9,903 |
| Peking |
83,780 |
| Perth |
33,026 |
| Phnom Penh |
4,972 |
| Plymouth |
4,542 |
| Port Louis |
9,217 |
| Port Moresby |
7,960 |
| Port of Spain |
12,781 |
| Prague |
34,363 |
| Pretoria |
35,716 |
| Quito |
8,886 |
| Rabat |
13,378 |
| Rangoon |
7,394 |
| Reykjavik |
9,096 |
| Riga |
14,705 |
| Rio De Janeiro |
19,386 |
| Riyadh |
84,815 |
| Rome |
100,644 |
| San Francisco |
67,800 |
| San Jose |
3,779 |
| San Salvador |
10,383 |
| Sana'A |
32,949 |
| Santiago |
57,206 |
| Santo Domingo |
3,492 |
| Sao Paulo |
81,278 |
| Sarajevo |
19,218 |
| Seattle |
16,709 |
| Seoul |
95,443 |
| Shanghai |
32,469 |
| Singapore |
55,607 |
| Skopje |
3,498 |
| Sofia |
14,788 |
| St. George's |
7,920 |
| St. John's |
14,618 |
| St. Petersburg |
35,726 |
| Stanley |
3,500 |
| Stockholm |
34,201 |
| Strasbourg-Council of Europe |
14,810 |
| Suva |
15,488 |
| Sydney |
95,523 |
| Taipei Btco |
32,416 |
| Tallinn |
2,411 |
| Tashkent |
8,321 |
| Tbilisi |
12,330 |
| Tegucigalpa |
4,057 |
| Tehran |
12,629 |
| Tel Aviv |
47,444 |
| The Hague |
73,533 |
| Tirana |
2,962 |
| Tokyo |
670,142 |
| Toronto |
42,038 |
| Tortola |
6,629 |
| Tripoli |
9,469 |
| Tunis |
13,131 |
| Ulaanbaatar |
7,099 |
| Valletta |
13,837 |
| Vancouver |
36,718 |
| Victoria |
6,025 |
| Vienna |
87,978 |
| Vila |
8,211 |
| Vilnius |
8,843 |
| Warsaw |
69,614 |
682W
| Post |
Spend 1997–98 |
| Washington |
254,762 |
| Wellington |
49,362 |
| Windhoek |
8,143 |
| Yaounde |
9,969 |
| Yerevan |
4,864 |
| Zagreb |
14,533 |
| Zurich |
11,918 |
| Total |
8,271,861 |
| 1 Charge for entertainment at an overseas post (signed off by NAO) |
| 2 Includes UKMIS and UKREP |
| 3 Including UKMIS and IKDIS Geneva |
| 4 Including UKMIS and BIS New York |