HC Deb 26 July 1978 vol 954 cc826-9W
Mr. Grocott

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list British embassies in order of the annual cost of their operation, indicating in each case the number of people employed and the embassy's grading.

Post Annual cost* (£ millions) United Kingdom-based staff Locally engaged staff
Pretoria 0.65 34 37
Seoul 0.65 13 30
Berne 0.64 10 22
Buenos Aires 0.62 24 42
Accra 0.60 31 46
Muscat 0.60 14 32
Wellington 0.59 16 32
Lisbon 0.57 18 43
Lusaka 0.56 30 34
Tripoli 0.55 16 34
Brasilia 0.53 18 29
Bucharest 0.53 21 23
Prague 0.52 26 41
Manila 0.50 11 29
Port of Spain 0.50 15 25
Addis Ababa 0.49 18 55
Kinshasa 0.49 15 31
Abu Dhabi 0.47 15 23
Sofia 0.47 19 20
Havana 0.45 17 19
Bahrain 0.44 9 18
Dublin 0.43 23 26
Damascus 0.41 15 25
Santiago 0.40 11 21
Sana'a 0.39 12 25
Colombo 0.38 16 56
Georgetown 0.38 14 27
Lilongwe 0.38 17 19
Dar es Salaam 0.37 18 28
Doha 0.37 7 16
Lima 0.33 11 26
Bridgetown 0.32 18 20
Dakar 0.31 9 16
Bogota 0.30 10 24
La Paz 0.30 7 11
Valletta 0.30 17 23
Nassau 0.28 4 11
Victoria 0.28 4 7
Algiers 0.27 7 17
Quito 0.27 9 20
Yaounde 0.27 8 11
Abidjan 0.26 6 10
Freetown 0.26 10 18
Gaborone 0.26 14 11
Port Louis 0.26 9 15
Luxembourg 0.25 7 7
Montevideo 0.24 7 22
Kabul 0.23 7 34
Panama City 0.23 5 8
Rangoon 0.23 9 50
Suva 0.23 7 8
Mbabane 0.22 9 14
Tunis 0.22 8 17
Rabat 0.21 8 21
Kathmandu 0.20 11 27
Mogadishu 0.19 5 10
Brunei 0.18 6 9
Maseru 0.18 7 10
Monrovia 0.18 5 15
Port Moresby 0.18 5 6
Aden 0.17 7 17
Asuncion 0.16 4 9
Banjul 0.16 5 13
San Jose 0.16 5 9
Guatemala City 0.15 4 6
Maputo 0.15 9 12
Santo Domingo 0.15 4 9
Vientiane 0.15 6 17
Hanoi 0.14 6 6
San Salvador 0.14 4 12
Reykjavik 0.12 3 5
Luanda 0.11 3 3

Post Annual cost* (£ millions) United Kingdom-based staff Locally engaged staff
Ulan Bator 0.08 2 7
Nuku'alofa 0.05 2 8
* Estimated costs based on expenditure in 1977–78.

It would not be appropriate to set out gradings of individual overseas missions. The costings figures quoted relate to expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and to costs attributable in part to Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Property Services Agency. Expenditure by the Ministry of Defence is excluded. The staff numbers refer to Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff or staff on loan to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.