HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 cc1322-3W
Annabelle Ewing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many jobs under the remit of his Department in(a) the core Department, (b) non-departmental public bodies, (c) executive agencies and (d) independent statutory bodies, organisations and bodies financially sponsored by his Department and (e) embassy, consular other such organisations, are located in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, excluding Greater London, (iii) Greater London, (iv) Wales, (v) Northern Ireland and (vi) overseas, broken down by (A) whole-time equivalent jobs and (B) the percentage per individual Department, body or organisation. [72729]

Mr. MacShane

The information requested is detailed in the table. The figures for FCO UK based staff appear in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's departmental report 2002. The figures for NDPBs and the BBC World Service will appear shortly in the Cabinet Office publication Public Bodies 2002.

Wales Northern Ireland Overseas
Staff Percentage Staff Percentage Staff Percentage Total
FCO
(I) UK based 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,326.00 39.69 15,860.00
(ii) Locally Employed (LE) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 9,512.00 100.00 19,512.00
NDPBs:
Britain-Russia Centre 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.50
British Association for Central and Eastern Europe 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 5.00
British Council 6.00 0.08 28.00 0.38 6,237.00 85.25 27,316.00
Great Britain—China Centre 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.00
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.50
Westminster Foundation for Democracy 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 11.00
Wilton Park 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 61.00
BBC World Service 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 247.00 13.33 31,853.00
1 The staff numbers for FCO include staff working at posts overseas, and include consular staff
2 The staff figures for British Council include staff on local contracts and teachers on contract
3 The staff figures for BBC World Service includes BBC Monitoring staff