HC Deb 20 April 1995 vol 258 cc263-4W
Mr. David Shaw

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list for each agency and the central Department for which he is responsible(a) the total amount of removal costs and associated expenses reimbursed to officials who were required to relocate as part of their employment, (b) the amount of each of the highest three claims that were concluded and settled and (c) the average amount of each claim in each of the last three years. [19660]

Mr. Goodlad

The details for the diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are:

(a) £ (b) £ (c) £
1994–95 47,941 19,507 6,849
10,672
6,556
1993–94 111,769 25,958 7,451
19,771
17,143
1992–93 216,447 40,078 12,025
22,534
20,144

The details for the Overseas Development Administration are:

(a) £ (b) £ (c) £
1994–95 56,733 22,895 14,183
22,315
9,777
1993–94 32,923 29,619 16,461
3,304
1992–93 47,802 33,428 23,901
14,374

The details for Wilton Park, an executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, are:

(a) £ (b) £ (c) £
1994–95 Nil Nil Nil
1993–94 5,000 5,000 5,000
1992–93 2,000 2,000 2,000

So far as the Natural Resources Institute, an executive agency of the Overseas Development Agency, is concerned, the chief executive will write separately to the hon. Gentleman when the figures have been collated.

The figures exclude (a) the costs of posting officers overseas and (b) the costs of moving officers within the United Kingdom when this has not been caused by relocation of work.

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