HC Deb 01 February 1977 vol 925 cc135-8W
Mr. David Steel

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, following his answer on 10th January regarding costs of embassies and high commissions, he will sub-divide the figures given to indicate the costs properly due to be apportioned to the Ministry of Defence.

Mr. Tomlinson

The figures I quoted on 10th January related, as is customary, to the expenditure borne by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and to costs attributable in part to Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Property Services Agency. A relatively small but unquantifiable part of the total related to property occupied by defence staffs. Other provision for these staffs is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, who has made available the following information:

£ million
Embassy/High Commission Annual costs in 1975 Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Washington 3.68 1.48
Paris 2.95 0.25
Bonn 2.39 0.17
Tokyo 2.19 0.12
Brussels 1.47 0.06
Lagos 1.40 0.06
New Delhi 1.30 0.09
Tehran 1.13 0.12
Rome 1.12 0.12
Moscow 1.10 0.19
Sana'a 0.23
Yaounde 0.23
Vientiane 0.23
Damascus 0.22
Port Louis 0.22
Valletta 0.22
Bahrain 0.21
Hanoi 0.21
Abidjan 0.20
Doha 0.20
La Paz 0.20
Luxembourg 0.20
Rangoon 0.20 0.02
Kabul 0.19
Montevideo 0.19
Panama City 0.19
Aden 0.18
Mbabane 0.17
Rabat 0.17 0.02
Quito 0.17 0.02
Kathmandu 0.16 0.02
Port Moresby 0.16
Suva 0.16
Tunis 0.16
Banjul 0.14
Brunei 0.14
Maseru 0.14
Monrovia 0.14
Maputo 0.13
Mogadishu 0.13
San Jose 0.11
Santo Domingo 0.11
Asuncion 0.10
Managua 0.10
£ million
Embassy/High Commission Annual costs in 1975 Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Reykyavik 0.10
East Berlin 0.47
Oslo 0.47 0.07
Baghdad 0.45 0.05
Buenos Aires 0.45 0.05
Berne 0.43 0.05
Lusaka 0.43
Prague 0.42 0.04
Abu Dhabi 0.40 0.03
Addis Ababa 0.40 0.02
Port of Spain 0.40
Wellington 0.40 0.05
Muscat 0.39 0.04
Seoul 0.39 0.02
Khartoum 0.38 0.04
Tripoli 0.37
Kampala 0.37
Amman 0.36 0.05
Bucharest 0.34 0.04
Dar es Salam 0.34
Dublin 0.34 0.01
Havana 0.34
Santiago 0.33 0.02
Colombo 0.32 0.02
Lima 0.32 0.03
Sofia 0.32 0.03
Lilongwe 0.31
Bridgetown 0.29
Manila 0.28 0.02
Algiers 0.27
Dakar 0.27
Georgetown 0.27
Gaborone 0.26
Freetown 0.25
Nassau 0.24 0.03
Bogota 0.23 0.02
Nicosia 1.07 0.02
Ottawa 0.95 0.22
Nairobi 0.94 0.05
Vienna 0.92 0.02
Islamabad 0.88 0.07
Canberra 0.86 0.27
Singapore 0.86 0.05
Warsaw 0.80 0.07
Dacca 0.78
Beirut 0.77 0.02
Madrid 0.77 0.07
Jakarta 0.74 0.06
Kuala Lumpur 0.74 0.07
Jedda 0.72 0.04
Athens 0.70 0.06
Copenhagen 0.67 0.06
Stockholm 0.67 0.08
The Hague 0.66 0.08
Ankara 0.60 0.07
Kuwait 0.59 0.01
Pretoria 0.59 0.08
Bangkok 0.58 0.05
Mexico City 0.58 0.02
Caracas 0.57 0.03
Tel Aviv 0.57 0.06
Brasilia 0.56 0.08
Cairo 0.56 0.06
Kingston 0.55
Helsinki 0.54 0.03
Peking 0.52 0.03
£ million
Embassy/High Commission Annual costs in 1975 Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Budapest 0.51
Accra 0.50 0.02
Kinshasa 0.50 0.03
Lisbon 0.48 0.06
Belgrade 0.47 0.05
San Salvador 0.10
Ulan Bator 0.09
Tananarive 0.08
Nuku'alofa 0.04
Other provision for these staffs is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, who has made available the following information: