§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish what information he has regarding the total diplomatic wing budgets of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states expressed as(a) a percentage of gross domestic product, (b) a percentage of total Government expenditure and (c) pounds sterling.
§ Mr. EggarInformation on the total diplomatic wing budgets of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
In the financial year 1987–88 expenditure on the diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (£660 million) amounted to 0.16 per cent. of United Kingdom GDP and 0.38 per cent. of general Government expenditure.