§ Mr. ByersTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many labour attachés and labour reporting offices there are in each embassy or overseas posts; and at what annual cost. [18079]
§ Mr. GoodladAt FCO posts overseas there are at present eight United Kingdom-based and five locally engaged officers with a formal labour reporting responsibility. Five of the UK-based officers are full-time labour attaches. As the following table shows, the 13 officers expect to devote, each year, a total of 10 man-years to labour reporting, at a total cost of £683,000.
Post UK-based officers Man Years Labour reporting LE Officers Man Years Labour reporting Cost £ Bonn 1 1 2 1.3 133,058 Brussels 1 1 1 1 116,624 Dublin 1 0.1 0 0 8,597 Madrid 1 1 0 0 116,102 Paris 1 1 0 0 112,768 Pretoria 1 1 0 0 53,272 Rome 2 0.6 1 1 107,492 Washington 0 0 1 1 35,050