HC Deb 08 December 1995 vol 268 cc421-4W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list(a) the number and (b) the location of staff in his Department employed to promote British trade overseas. [3026]

Mr. Hanley

[holding answer 4 December 1995]: The location and the number of staff whose responsibilities lie primarily in promoting trade with the United Kingdom are listed in the table.

There are in addition a large number of staff who contribute a lower proportion of their time directly to export promotion. For example, all heads of mission are an important part of the trade promotion effort. Staff engaged in political, economic and information also make a significant contribution to export and inward investment effort.

Number and location of staff employed to promote British trade overseas (as at 31 May 1995)
Location of mission Number of staff
Abidjan 4
Abu Dhabi 7
Abuja 1
Accra 5
Addis Ababa 1
Aden 2
Al Khobar 4
Alexandria 2
Algiers 3
Almaty 3
Amman 6
Ankara 8
Antananarivo 2
Ashgabat 2
Asuncion 2
Athens 9
Atlanta 7
Auckland 9
Baghdad 6
Bahrain 5
Baku 1
Bandar Seri Begawan 3
Bangalore 2
Bangkok 15
Barcelona 7
Beirut 4
Belgrade 5
Belmopan 1
Belo Horizonte 1
Berlin 13
Berne 2
Bilbao 3
Bogota 7
Bombay 12
Bordeaux 2
Boston 6
Brasilia 4
Bratislava 2
Bridgetown 3
Brisbane 5
Brussels 11

Number and location of staff employed to promote British trade overseas (as at 31 May 1995)
Location of mission Number of staff
Brussels Ukrep 3
Bucharest 6
Budapest 10
Buenos Aires 10
Cairo 9
Calcutta 6
Canberra 2
Cape Town 4
Caracas 8
Casablanca 5
Castries 1
Chiang Mai 1
Chicago 14
Cleveland 5
Colombo 5
Copenhagen 14
Dakar 1
Dallas 4
Damascus 5
Dar Es Salaam 5
Dhaka 3
Doha 6
Douala 1
Dubai 12
Dublin 7
Durban 2
Dusseldorf 20
Ekaterinburg 1
Florence 2
Frankfurt 10
Freetown 1
Gaborone 2
Geneva CG 3
Georgetown 2
Gothenburg 2
Guatemala City 2
Hamburg 9
Hanoi 7
Harare 5
Havana 2
Helsinki 11
Ho Chi Minh 5
Hong Kong BTC 13
Hong Kong CTU 4
Honiara 1
Houston 5
Islamabad 7
Istanbul 10
Jakarta 15
Jedda 8
Jerusalem 2
Johannesburg 15
Kaduna 2
Kampala 3
Kano 1
Karachi 7
Kathmandu 2
Khartoum 1
Kiev 4
Kingston 4
Kingstown 1
Kinshasa 1
Kuala Lumpur 19
Kuching 1
Kuwait 9
La Paz 2
Lagos 13
Las Palmas 2
Lille 4
Lilongwe 2
Lima 3
Lisbon 14

Number and location of staff employed to promote British trade overseas (as at 31 May 1995)
Location of mission Number of staff
Ljubljana 4
Lome 1
Los Angeles 7
Luanda 2
Lusaka 4
Luxembourg 2
Lyons 6
Madras 8
Madrid 18
Managua 1
Manila 5
Maputo 1
Marseilles 3
Melbourne 10
Mexico City 11
Miami 4
Milan 22
Minsk 1
Montevideo 3
Montreal 5
Moscow 12
Munich 7
Muscat 6
Nagoya 3
Nairobi 8
Naples 3
Nassau 1
New Delhi 16
New York CG 20
Nicosia 6
Oporto 3
Osaka 11
Oslo 12
Panama City 2
Paris 27
Peking 14
Perth 5
Phnom Penh 2
Port Harcourt 2
Port Louis 3
Port Moresby 2
Port of Spain 4
Prague 10
Pusan 1
Quito 4
Rabat 1
Rangoon 4
Recife 1
Reykjavik 2
Riga 2
Rio de Janeiro 8
Riyadh 16
Rome 8
San Francisco 6
San Jose 4
San Juan 1
San Salvador 2
Sana' a 4
Santiago 7
Santo Domingo 2
Sao Paulo 9
Seattle 4
Seoul 17
Seville 2
Shanghai 4
Singapore 16
Sofia 5
St. John's 1
St. Petersburg 3
Stockholm 14
Stuttgart 5
Suva 2

Number and location of staff employed to promote British trade overseas (as at 31 May 1995)
Location of mission Number of staff
Sydney 12
Tallinn 1
Tashkent 1
Tbilisi 1
Tegucigalpa 1
Tehran 6
Tel Aviv 6
The Hague 12
Tirana 1
Tokyo 33
Toronto 9
Tunis 4
Ulaanbaatar 1
Valletta 3
Vancouver 7
Vienna 7
Vilnius 2
Warsaw 11
Washington 5
Wellington 2
Yaounde 1
Yerevan 1
Zagreb 2
Zurich 12

There are currently three UK-based officers seconded to the British trade cultural office, Taipei. A further five locally engaged staff are also employed by the British trade cultural office.

London:

Joint export and promotion department: 22 staff.

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