§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the names of contract legal personnel overseas funded under the British aid programme, the countries in which they work and the total cost of their salaries to the taxpayer.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThere are currently 21 contract legal personnel working overseas under the British aid programme:
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Countries Legal personnel Barbados Regional legal adviser Gibraltar Chief Justice Kenya Chief Justice 2 Puisne judges Kiribati Chief Justice Lesotho Chief Justice St. Helena Attorney General Solomon Islands Chief Justice Chief Magistrate Swaziland High Court Judge
Countries Legal personnel Turks and Caicos Islands Attorney General Chief Magistrate Tonga Puisne Judge Senior Crown Counsel/ Acting Chief Justice Uganda Supreme Court Judge Vanuatu Puisne Judge/ Acting Chief Justice Public Prosecutor Regional Legal Adviser Zimbabwe Chief Law Officer Training Officer We do not publish the names of individual officers. The total salary cost is currently about £750,000 per annum.