§ Mr. KilfoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the 10 British embassies and high commissions with the(a) highest and (b) lowest running costs, indicating the number of staff employed in each case. [145310]
§ Mr. WilsonThe 10 UK embassies and high commissions with the(a)highest and (b)lowest operating costs in FY 1999–2000, and the numbers of UK-based staff resident at these missions, are as follows:
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Operating costs1 Number of UK-based staff2 Numbers of locally engaged staff Highest Tokyo (highest operating cost) 48 133 Paris 70 140 Washington 77 155 Moscow 76 151 Brussels3 144 113 Berlin/Bonn 53 97 New Delhi 64 234 Rome 35 95 Peking 69 138 Singapore 22 57
Operating costs1 Number of UK-based staff2 Numbers of locally engaged staff Lowest Minsk 4 12 Reykjavik 3 6 Vila 2 8 Santo Domingo 2 10 Managua 2 13 Windhoek 4 7 Tegucigalpa 2 11 Honiara 2 8 Nuku'Alofa 1 8 Castries (lowest operating cost) 1 4 1 Operating costs include costs of small subordinate posts,that cannot esasily be separated/extracted. 2Numbers of home based staff is the total staff complement of the FCO and other Government Departments, ie MOD and DFIF. 3Costs and starff figures cover all the FCO Missions in Brussels, (Embassy, UKREP,NATO) 4Costs and staff figures cover the officers in Berlin and Bonn together as they cannot be calculated separately