Departmental Staff

HC Deb 11 September 2003 vol 410 cc437-9W

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, (d) independent statutory bodies, organisations and bodies financially sponsored by his Department and (e) embassy and consular are in (i) Scotland, (ii) each region in England, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland and (v) overseas, broken down by (A) whole-time equivalent jobs and (B) the percentage per individual Department, body or organisation. [127312]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

The information requested is detailed in the following table.

	North East	North West	Yorkshire
	Staff	Percentage	Staff	Percentage	Staff	Percentage
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Westminster Foundation for Democracy	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Wilton Park3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
BBC
World Service	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Monitoring	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

	Wales	Northern Ireland	Scotland
	Staff	Percentage	Staff	Percentage	Staff	Percentage
FCO1
(i) UK based	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
(ii) Locally employed (LE)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
NDPBs2
Britain-Russia Centre	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
British Assoc. for Central and Eastern Europe	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
British Council	7.00	0.10	26.00	0.36	37.00	0.51
Great Britain-China Centre	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Westminster Foundation for Democracy	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Wilton Park3	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
BBC
World Service	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Monitoring	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

	Overseas
	Staff	Percentage	Total
FCO1
(i) UK based	2,331.00	39.84	15,851.00
(ii) Locally employed (LE)	9,792.00	100.00	19,792.00
NDPBs2
Britain-Russia Centre	0.00	0.00	20.00
British Assoc. for Central and Eastern Europe	0.00	0.00	4.20
British Council	6,213.00	85.11	37,300.00
Great Britain-China Centre	0.00	0.00	5.40
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission	0.00	0.00	2.50
Westminster Foundation for Democracy	0.00	0.00	10.00
Wilton Park3	0.00	0.00	69.00
BBC
World Service	278.00	17.73	1,568.00
Monitoring	127.00	24.52	518.00
1 The staff numbers for FCO include staff working at posts overseas, and include consular staff.
2 As of 1 April 2003 the FCO no longer sponsors the Britain-Russia Centre.
3 The staff figures for British Council include staff on local contracts and teachers on contract.