HC Deb 05 December 1986 vol 106 cc808-12W
Mr. Foulkes

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what, for each diplomatic mission overseas, is the current (a) authorised establishment and (b) actual staffing level.

Mr. Eggar

The current diplomatic and aid wing authorised United Kingdom-based establishment at each post overseas is:

Post Establishment
Abidjan 7.0
Abu Dhabi 17.0
Accra 20.0
Addis Ababa 17.0
Aden 4.0
Alexandria 2.0
Algiers 11.0
Alicante 1.0
Al Khobar 2.0
Amman 23.0

Post Establishment
Amsterdam 3.0
Ankara 22.0
Antananarivo 2.0
Antigua 2.0
Asuncion 2.0
Athens 29.0
Atlanta 3.0
Auckland 4.0
Baghdad 25.0
Bahrain 10.0
Bandar Seri Begawan 7.0
Bangkok 32.0
Banjul 5.0
Barcelona 4.0
Beirut 6.0
Belgrade 19.0
Belmopan 6.0
Berlin BMG 27.5
Berlin Consulate General 3.0
Berne 13.0
Bilbao 1.0
Bogata 9.0
Bombay 13.0
Bonn 75.0
Bordeaux 1.0
Boston 1.0
Brasilia 18.0
Brazzaville 1.0
Bridgetown 20.0
Brisbane 2.0
Brussels Embassy 31.0
Brussels NATO 42.0
Brussels UKREP 77.0
Bucharest 17.0
Budapest 27.0
Buenos Aires 17.0
Berlin, East 19.0
Cairo 38.0
Calcutta 4.0
Canberra 28.0
Capetown 5.0
Caracas 16.0
Casablanca 2.0
Castries 1.0
Chicago 6.0
Cleveland 2.0
Colombo 16.0
Copenhagen 20.0
Dhaka 45.0
Dakar 8.0
Dallas 1.0
Damascus 6.0
Dar es Salaam 17.0
Doha 9.0
Douala 3.0
Dubai 12.0
Dublin 22.0
Durban 1.0
Dusseldorf 13.0
Edmonton 2.0
Florence 1.0
Frankfurt 6.0
Freetown 5.0
Gabarone 9.0
Geneva Consulate General 3.0
Geneva UKMIS 38.0
Geneva UKDEL 6.0
Georgetown 6.0
Guatemala City 2.0
The Hague 24.0
Hamburg 5.0
Hanoi 6.0
Harare 27.0
Havana 16.0
Helsinki 22.0
Honiara 2.0
Houston 3.0

Post Establishment
Islamabad 68.0
Istanbul 8.0
Jakarta 27.0
Jedda 8.0
Jerusalem 3.0
Johannesburg 11.0
Kabul 6.0
Kaduna 5.0
Kampala 14.0
Karachi 9.0
Kathmandu 10.0
Khartoum 23.0
Kingston 26.0
Kingstown 2.0
Kinshasa 8.0
Kuala Lumpur 28.0
Kuwait 20.0
Lagos 46.0
La Paz 5.0
Las Palmas 1.0
Libreville 2.0
Lille 1.0
Lilongwe 13.0
Lima 9.0
Lisbon 19.0
Los Angeles 5.0
Luanda 9.0
Lusaka 25.0
Luxembourg 6.0
Lyons 2.0
Madras 2.0
Madrid 32.0
Managua 2.0
Manila 14.0
Maputo 7.0
Marseilles 2.0
Maseru 6.0
Mbabane 5.0
Melbourne 4.0
Mexico City 23.0
Milan 6.0
Mogadishu 5.0
Monrovia 4.0
Montevideo 14.0
Montreal 4.0
Moscow 57.0
Munich 9.0
Muscat 16.0
Miami 1.0
Nairobi 39.0
Naples 2.0
Nassau 5.0
New Delhi 57.0
New York Consulate General 17.0
New York BTDO 10.0
New York BIS 3.0
New York UKMIS 33.0
Nicosia 25.0
Nuku'Alofa 2.0
Oporto 1.0
Osaka 3.0
Oslo 19.0
Ottawa 19.0
Palma 1.0
Panama City 4.0
Paris OECD 7.0
Paris Embassy 81.0
Peking 40.0
Perth 2.0
Port Louis 7.0
Port Moresby 4.0
Port of Spain 11.0
Port Stanley 3.0
Prague 21.0
Pretoria 37.5
Quito 7.0
Rabat 7.0

Post Establishment
Rangoon 8.0
Reykjavik 3.0
Rio de Janeiro 8.0
Riyadh 30.0
Rome 40.0
St. Georges 2.0
Sana'a 11.0
San Francisco 3.0
San Jose 6.0
San Salvador 1.0
Santiago 14.0
Sao Paulo 4.0
Seattle 1.0
Seoul 14.0
Shanghai 3.0
Singapore 27.0
Sofia 14.0
Stockholm 23.0
Strasbourg 5.0
Suva 6.0
Sydney 4.0
Tarawa 1.0
Tegucigalpa 3.0
Tehran 24.0
Tel Aviv 20.0
Tokyo 48.0
Toronto 4.0
Tripoli 7.0
Tunis 6.0
Ulan Bator 2.0
Valletta 9.0
Vancouver 2.0
Vatican City 2.0

Department Nations covered Home based staff
1. North America Department Canada, United States of America Nine comprising five Diplomatic and four Administrative and Technical staff
2 South America Department Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Polar Regions 18 comprising 11 Diplomatic staff and seven Administrative and Technical staff
3. Mexico and Central America Department Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Belize, Guatemala, Dominican Republic 14 comprising eight Diplomatic staff and six Administrative and Technical staff
4. West Indian and Atlantic Department Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Ascension, Bermuda, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Cayman, Islands, Haiti, Bahamas, French Guiana, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Bardados, Dominica, Grenada, Guateloupe, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts, St. Lucian, St. Vincent Grenadines 16 comprising nine Diplomatic staff and seven Administrative and Technical staff
5. Falkland Islands Department Falklands, Argentina 19 comprising 10 Diplomatic staff and nine Administrative and Technical staff

Post Establishment
Victoria 5.0
Vienna 31.0
Vienna CSCE 8.0
Vienna UKDEL 6.0
Vienna UKMIS 4.0
Vila 2.0
Warsaw 36.0
Washington 117.0
Wellington 12.0
Yaounde 8.0
Zurich 3.0

So far as possible the staffing level matches the establishment of each post; but the actual level varies from day to day depending on leave, training and urgent operational requirements.