HC Deb 02 June 1992 vol 208 c365W
Mr. Barry Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those British embassies which have desk-top communications for(a) their own purposes and (b) commercial and trade purposes.

Mr. Goodlad

Of the 230 British overseas posts where there are resident United Kingdom-based staff, all but 15 have computer systems which can be used both for their own internal purposes and to store and process commercial and trade data.