HC Deb 20 December 1976 vol 923 cc45-7W
Mr. Grocott

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the British embassies extant in 1975 in order of the cost of their operation in that year, indicating also the number of staff employed.

Mr. Tomlinson

The information is as follows:

Embassy/High Commission UK-based staff Locally-engaged-staff
Washington 137 198
Paris 95 168
Bonn 96 163
Tokyo 67 104
Brussels 45 90
Lagos 56 105
New Delhi 65 223
Tehran 45 77
Rome 45 75
Moscow 61 63
Nicosia 33 51
Ottawa 30 82
Nairobi 48 137
Embassy/High Commission UK-based staff Locally-engaged-staff
Vienna 33 71
Islamabad 70 115
Canberra 34 73
Singapore 40 87
Warsaw 52 57
Dacca 44 124
Beirut 40 71
Madrid 31 61
Jakarta 32 95
Kuala Lumpur 36 79
Jedda 24 50
Athens 30 76
Copenhagen 23 59
Stockholm 24 39
The Hague 24 44
Ankara 31 53
Kuwait 22 50
Pretoria 35 41
Bangkok 32 97
Mexico City 18 68
Caracas 18 42
Tel Aviv 30 48
Brasilia 18 50
Cairo 37 74
Kingston 20 47
Helsinki 27 37
Peking 29 33
Budapest 29 37
Accra 29 59
Kinshasa 19 67
Lisbon 19 59
Belgrade 25 52
East Berlin 27 27
Oslo 15 31
Baghdad 18 46
Buenos Aires 22 68
Berne 11 27
Lusaka 27 55
Prague 32 50
Abu Dhabi 16 34
Addis Ababa 18 71
Port of Spain 18 38
Wellington 17 44
Muscat 11 43
Seoul 13 37
Khartoum 19 45
Tripoli 15 44
Kampala 17 28
Amman 22 39
Bucharest 21 31
Dar es Salaam 20 40
Dublin 19 48
Havana 17 27
Santiago 13 38
Colombo 16 65
Lima 11 38
Sofia 20 29
Lilongwe 19 25
Bridgetown 14 36
Manila 12 39
Algiers 10 26
Dakar 12 26
Georgetown 16 41
Gaborone 12 25
Freetown 13 53
Nassau 5 17
Bogota 10 36
Sana'a 10 40
Yaounde 8 27
Vientiane 13 35
Damascus 10 29
Port Louis 11 32
Embassy/High Commission UK-based staff Locally-engaged-staff
Valletta 15 32
Bahrain 7 28
Hanoi 6 10
Abidjan 6 17
Doha 7 25
La Paz 8 22
Luxembourg 7 12
Rangoon 10 63
Kabul 11 45
Montevideo 4 29
Panama City 5 20
Aden 10 24
Mbabane 10 23
Rabat 8 29
Quito 8 25
Kathmandu 11 46
Port Moresby 5 10
Suva 8 10
Tunis 8 29
Banjul 6 22
Brunei 6 9
Maseru 8 22
Monrovia 5 19
Maputo 6 18
Mogadishu 5 27
San Jose 4 16
Santo Domingo 4 14
Asuncion 4 12
Managua 4 16
Reykjavik 5 9
San Salvador 4 20
Ulan Bator 4 9
Tananarive 3 14
Nuku'alofa 2 7