§ Mr. MartlewTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will list all the land overseas which is owned by the Government for non-military purposes, giving the number of hectares; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. GoodladThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office own freehold land at the 144 diplomatic Posts overseas, listed as follows.
The total land area of the compounds, office sites and residence sites in this list is about 240 hectares. The land area of the staff houses listed is not readily available, but is estimated to be of the order of 40 hectares. The balance of the land occupied by diplomatic posts overseas is held on various leasehold or condominium terms.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office keep the overseas estate under continuous review and rationalise its land holdings, and dispose of any surplus land, where it is practicable, necessary and cost-effective to do so.
- Abu Dhabi: compound
- Addis Ababa: compound
- Alexandria: compound
- Algiers: Residence
576 - Amman: office, Residence, 1 staff house
- Amsterdam: office, Residence
- Ankara: compound
- Asuncion: Residence
- Athens: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
- Atlanta: Residence, 1 staff house
- Auckland: Residence, 2 staff houses
- Baghdad: compound
- Bahrain: compound
- Bangkok: compound
- Banjul: Residence
- Belgrade: office, 1 staff house
- Belmopan: office, Residence, 3 staff houses
- Berlin: site
- Berne: office
- Bogota: Residence
- Bonn: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
- Bordeaux: Residence
- Boston: Residence
- Brasilia: compound, 7 houses
- Bridgetown: Residence, 4 staff houses
- Brisbane: Residence, 1 staff house
- Brussels: Residences, 15 staff houses
- Bucharest: office
- Budapest: Residence, 1 staff house
- Buenos Aires: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
- Cairo: compound, 5 staff houses
- Calcutta: compound
- Cape Town: Residence, 8 staff houses
- Caracas: Residence
- Casablanca: site
- Castries: Residence
- Chicago: 2 staff houses
- Cleveland: Residence
- Colombo: office, 2 staff houses
- Copenhagen: Residence, 13 staff houses
- Dakar: compound, 2 staff houses
- Damascus: site, Residence
- Dar es Salaam: Residence, 28 staff houses
- Doha: compound
- Dubai: compound
- Dublin: office, Residence, 14 staff houses
- Durban: Residence
- Edmonton: Residence
- Gaborone: office, Residence, 8 staff houses
- Geneva: Residence, 3 staff houses
- Georgetown: office, 2 staff houses
- Guatemala City: Residence
- The Hague: office, Residence, 10 staff houses
- Harare: Residence, 13 staff houses
- Helsinki: office, Residence, 4 staff houses
- Ho Chi Minh City: office, Residence
- Houston: Residence, 1 staff house
- Istanbul: compound site
- Jerusalem: compound
- Johannesburg: Residence, 9 staff houses
- Kabul: compound
- Kampala: 11 staff houses
- Karachi: compound
- Kathmandu: compound
- Khartoum: office, Residence
- Kingston: compound, 6 staff houses
- Kingstown: office, Residence
- Kinshasa: compound, Residence
- Kuala Lumpur: compound, Residence, 4 staff houses
- Kuwait: compound
- La Paz: office, Residence
- Lille: Residence
- Lilongwe: office, Residence, 22 staff houses
- Lima: Residence, 1 staff house
- Lisbon: office, Residence, 3 staff houses
- Los Angeles: Residence, 1 staff house
- Luanda: compound
- Lusaka: Residence, 23 staff houses
- Luxembourg: Residence
- Lyons: Residence
- Madras: compound
- Madrid: office, Residence, 18 staff houses
- Manila: Residence
- Maputo: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
577 - Marseilles: Residence
- Maseru: compound, 4 staff houses
- Mbabane: office, Residence, 6 staff houses
- Melbourne: Residence, 3 staff houses
- Mexico City: office, Residence
- Montevideo: office, Residence
- Montreal: Residence, I staff house
- Munich: Residence
- Muscat: compound, 13 staff houses
- Nairobi: Residence, 17 staff houses
- Naples: office/Residence
- Nassau: Residence, 2 staff houses
- Nicosia: office, Residence, 3 staff houses
- Osaka: Residence
- Oslo: compound, 2 staff houses
- Ottawa: office, Residence, 20 staff houses
- Palma: Residence
- Paris: offices, Residences, 15 staff houses
- Perth: Residence, I staff house
- Port Louis: office, Residence, 4 staff houses
- Port of Spain: Residence, 5 staff houses
- Port Vila: 1 staff house
- Prague: compound
- Pretoria: office, Residence, 23 staff houses
- Quito: sites, Residence
- Rabat: Residence
- Rangoon: office, compound, 1 staff house
- Reykjavik: site, Residence
- Riga: compound
- Rome: office, Residence
- St. George's: Residence
- St. John's: Residence
- San Francisco: Residence
- San José: Residence
- San Salvador: Residence
- Santiago: Residence, 6 staff houses
- Sao Paulo: Residence
- Seattle: Residence
- Seoul: compound, 1 staff house
- Singapore: Residence, I staff house
- Sofia: Residence
- Stockholm: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
- Strasbourg: Residence, 1 staff house
- Suva: office
- Sydney: Residence, 2 staff houses
- Tehran: compounds
- Tel Aviv: office, Residence, 9 staff houses
- Toronto: Residence, I staff house
- Tunis: office, Residence
- Valletta: 1 staff house
- Vancouver: Residence
- Victoria: Residence
- Vienna: office, Residence, 2 staff houses
- Vientiane: Residence, 6 staff houses
- Vilnius: compound
- Warsaw: 1 staff house
- Washington: office, Residence, 25 staff houses
- Wellington: offices, Residence, 16 staff houses
- Windhoek: office, Residence, 5 staff houses
- Zurich: Residence