§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give a breakdown by strength of Department of the number of staff currently based at the embassy in Peking.
§ Mr. RentonThe establishment of our embassy in Peking broken down by Department is:
- Ambassador
- Personal assistant
Chancery
- Counsellor
- Two first secretaries
- One second secretary
- One second secretary (also employed on information work)
- Three secreterial staff
- Two locally engaged staff
Commercial Department
- Counsellor
- First secretary
- Second secretary
- Attache
- Three United Kingdom based support staff
- One locally engaged officer.
- Commercial work in southern China is covered by the China trade unit in the British Trade Commission in Hong Kong which is staffed by a first and second secretary with 1.5 locally engaged staff.
Economic Section
- First secretary
Information Section
- See Chancery
- One part time locally engaged employee
Consular and Immigration Section
- One first secretary
- One attache
- One United Kingdom-based support staff
- 4.5 locally engaged staff
Science and Technology
- Second secretary
Administration, Communications and General Support
- First secretary
Attache
- 15 United Kingdom-based support staff
- 39 locally-engaged staff
§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he has any plans to increase the strength of the commercial section of the Peking embassy.
§ Mr. RentonThere are no plans to increase the strength of the commercial section of the embassy in Peking. The re-opening of a consulate general in Shanghai in the first half of 1985 will improve our commercial coverage in that important area of China.
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§ Mrs. Ann Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those individuals who are currently based with the commercial section of the Peking embassy and state each of their responsibilities.
§ Mr. RentonThere are eight United Kingdom based officers in the commercial section of the British embassy in Peking.
H. L. Davies, Counsellor (commercial)
He supervises the work of the commercial section in Peking and the China trade unit in Hong Kong.S. J. Towlson, First secretary (commercial) and deputy to the counsellor (commercial).
Special responsibility for:
- Guangdong Nuclear Project
- Steel and non-ferrous metals
- Medical
- Telecommunications
- Scientific instruments
- Power generation
- Electronics
- Banking, invisibles, ECGD
- Exhibition policy
- Construction, tourism
- Patents, copyright, trademark
- Commercial law
- British Consultants Bureau
- Minerals (non-metallic)
- Joint ventures
W. D. W. Dennis, First secretary (economic).
Special responsibility for:
- Ecomomic affairs
- Energy (Oil, Coal, Gas)
- Energy conservation
- Technical co-operation
- CBI scholarships
- Information technology
- UN agencies
- World Bank
- Commercial section computerisation programme
J. Harrod, Second secretary (commercial).
Special responsibility for:
- Shanghai consulate
- Environmental protection
- Roads, railways
- Ships, shipping
- Chemicals, petrochemicals
- Advertising
- Publishing
- Education
C. Haswell, Attache (commercial).
Special responsibility for:
- Agriculture
- Automotive industry
- Mechanical engineering, machine tools
- Aerospace
- Textiles, textile machinery
- Food processing, packaging
- Light industry
- Exhibitions
- Forthcoming events
Miss S. Bennett, Attache.
Special responsibility for:
- Commercial archives
- Projection and exhibition equipment
- Export intelligence service notices
- Press
- Trade statistics
Miss N. James, Secretarial duties
Miss L. Franklin, Secretarial duties
Messrs. Davies, Dennis, Harrod and Haswell speak Chinese.
In addition the section has clerical support from one locally engaged member of staff.