§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list diplomatic posts abroad together with the number of his Department's staff in each on(a) 1 May 1997 and (b) 24 June 1998. [48203]
§ Mr. Fatchett[holding answer 30 June 1998]: The following is the list of FCO Posts overseas giving the number of UK-based staff on the FCO establishment for the dates requested. FCO staff in the Department Territories are listed separately.
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Number of staff at post Post 1997 1998 Abidjan 8.00 8.00 Abu Dhabi 11.00 10.00 Addis Ababa 12.00 11.00
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Number of staff at post Post 1997 1998 Al Khobar 2.00 2.00 Alexandria 1.00 1.00 Algiers 4.00 4.00 Almaty 4.00 4.00 Amman 16.00 15.00 Amsterdam 3.00 2.00 Ankara 16.00 14.00 Antananarivo 3.00 2.00 Ashgabat 2.00 3.00 Asuncion 2.00 2.00 Athens 17.00 15.00 Atlanta 3.00 2.00 Auckland 2.00 2.00 Bahrain 9.00 8.00 Baku 3.00 4.00 Bandar Seri Begawan 6.00 7.00 Bangkok 28.00 23.00 Banjul 8.00 6.00 Barcelona 2.00 2.00 Beirut 7.00 7.00 Belgrade 16.00 15.00 Belmopan 5.00 4.00 Berlin 15.00 15.00 Berne 7.00 8.00 Bilbao 1.00 1.00 Bogota 11.00 12.00 Bombay 19.00 19.00 Bonn 33.00 30.00 Bordeaux 1.00 1.00 Boston 2.00 2.00 Brasilia 12.00 12.00 Bratislava 7.00 5.00 Bridgetown 14.00 13.00 Brisbane 2.00 2.00 Brussels (Embassy) 14.00 13.00 Brussels (Joint Mangage) 4.00 4.00 Brussels (UK rep) 70.00 76.00 Brussels UK Del NATO) 36.00 38.00 Bucharest 18.00 17.00 Budapest 18.00 16.00 Buenos Aires 14.00 15.00 Cairo 26.00 24.00 Calcutta 4.00 3.00 Canberra 18.00 16.00 Cape Town 5.00 3.00 Caracas 11.00 9.00 Casablanca 4.00 4.00 Castries 1.00 1.00 Chiang Mai 1.00 1.00 Chicago 4.00 3.00 Cleveland 1.00 1.00 Colombo 16.00 15.00 Copenhagen 12.00 11.00 Dakar 6.00 5.00 Dallas 1.00 1.00 Damascus 12.00 10.00 Dhaka 30.00 28.00 Doha 6.00 7.00 Dubai 13.00 11.00 Dublin 20.00 18.00 Durban 2.00 2.00 Dusseldorf 9.00 10.00 Frankfurt 2.00 2.00 Freetown 5.00 5.00 Gaborone 5.00 5.00 Geneva (CG) 1.00 1.00 Geneva (UK Del) 5.50 5.50 Geneva (UK Mis) 22.00 22.50 Georgetown 6.00 5.00 Guangzhou 3.00 5.00 Guatemala City 4.00 4.00 Hamburg 3.00 3.00 Hanoi 9.00 9.00
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Number of staff at post Post 1997 1998 Harare 15.00 13.00 Havana 10.00 8.00 Helsinki 12.00 11.00 Ho Chi Minh City 4.00 3.00 Holy See (Vatican) 2.00 2.00 Hong Kong (BCG) 38.00 42.00 Hong Kong (JLG) 5.00 4.00 Honiara 2.00 2.00 Houston 3.00 3.00 Islamabad 60.00 61.00 Istanbul 17.00 16.00 Jakarta 21.00 22.00 Jedda 8.00 7.00 Jerusalem 6.00 7.00 Johannesburg 6.00 5.00 Kampala 10.00 10.00 Karachi 13.00 15.00 Kathmandu 8.00 8.00 Khartoum 9.00 9.00 Kiev 13.00 14.00 Kigali 3.00 3.00 Kingston 13.00 13.00 Kingstown, St. Vincent 1.00 1.00 Kinshasa 3.00 5.00 Kuala Lumpur 18.00 17.00 Kuching 1.00 1.00 Kuwait 11.00 11.00 La Paz 4.00 4.00 Lagos 49.00 47.00 Lille 1.00 1.00 Lilongwe 10.00 8.00 Lima 9.00 8.00 Lisbon 13.00 13.00 Ljubljana 3.00 4.00 Los Angeles 4.00 4.00 Luanda 7.00 6.00 Lusaka 11.00 8.00 Luxembourg 6.00 6.00 Lyon 1.00 1.00 Madras 5.00 8.00 Madrid (Embassy) 21.00 21.00 Managua 2.00 2.00 Manila 16.00 16.00 Maputo 9.00 8.00 Marseilles 1.00 1.00 Maseru 3.00 3.00 Mbabane 3.00 3.00 Melbourne 2.00 2.00 Mexico City 17.00 15.00 Miami 1.00 1.00 Milan 4.00 4.00 Minsk 3.00 3.00 Montevideo 4.00 3.00 Montreal 3.00 3.00 Moscow 83.00 84.00 Munich 3.00 2.00 Muscat 11.00 11.00 Nairobi 27.00 20.00 Naples 2.00 2.00 Nassau 3.00 2.00 New Delhi 47.00 47.00 New York (Bis) 3.00 3.00 New York (CG) 9.00 7.00 New York (JMO) 2.00 2.00 New York (UK Mis) 35.00 35.00 Nicosia 16.00 14.00 Nuku'alofa 1.00 1.00 Oporto 1.00 1.00 Osaka 5.00 5.00 Oslo 9.00 10.00 Ottawa 15.00 15.00 Palma 1.00 1.00 Panama City 2.00 2.00
Number of staff at post Post 1997 1998 Paris (Embassy) 48.00 46.00 Paris (UK Del OECD) 6.00 7.00 Peking 46.00 46.00 Perth 2.00 2.00 Phnom Penh 2.00 3.00 Port Louis 6.00 7.00 Port Moresby 6.00 4.00 Port of Spain 7.00 7.00 Prague 12.00 13.00 Pretoria 26.00 24.00 Quito 5.00 6.00 Rabat 7.00 7.00 Rangoon 5.00 5.00 Reykjavik 3.00 3.00 Riga 22.00 5.00 Rome 22.00 20.00 San Francisco 2.00 3.00 San Jose 4.00 2.00 San Salvador 2.00 2.00 Sana'a 10.00 9.00 Santiago 8.00 9.00 Santo Domingo 1.00 1.00 Sao Paulo 5.00 5.00 Sarajevo 11.00 10.00 Seattle 1.00 1.00 Seoul 16.00 16.00 Shanghai 6.00 6.00 Singapore 16.00 16.00 Skopje 2.00 2.00 Sofia 13.00 12.00 St. George's, Grenada 1.00 1.00 St. Johns 1.00 1.00 St. Petersburg 4.00 6.00 Stockholm 12.00 12.00 Strasbourg 4.00 4.00 Stuttgart 1.00 1.00 Suva 5.00 5.00 Sydney 4.00 4.00 Taipei 6.00 7.00 Tallinn 3.00 4.00 Tashkent 5.00 5.00 Tbilisi 4.00 4.00 Tegucigalpa 2.00 2.00 Tehran 10.00 13.00 Tel Aviv 17.00 16.00 The Hague 17.00 16.00 Tirana 3.00 4.00 Tokyo 38.00 37.00 Toronto 4.00 4.00 Tripoli 2.00 2.00 Tunis 11.00 12.00 Ulaanbaatar 2.00 2.00 Valletta 9.00 8.00 Vancouver 2.00 2.00 Victoria 2.00 2.00 Vienna (UK Mis) 3.00 7.00 Vienna Embassy 12.00 12.00 Vienna OSCE 10.00 9.00 Vila 2.00 2.00 Vilnius 3.00 4.00 Warsaw 21.00 16.00 Washington (Embassy) 70.00 55.00 Wellington 10.00 10.00 Windhoek 4.00 4.00 Yaounde 4.00 5.00 Yekaterinburg 1.00 3.00 Yerevan 2.00 3.00 Zagreb (Embassy) 8.00 7.00 Zurich 3.00 0.00 (closed) Total 2,198.50 2,112.00 FCO staff in Dependent Territories
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Number of staff at post Post 1997 1998 Anguilla 4.00 4.00 Ascension 1.00 1.00 Gibraltar 8.00 9.00 Grand Cayman 2.00 2.00 Grand Turk 2.00 2.00 Plymouth, Montserrat 4.00 4.00 St. Helena 1.00 1.00 Stanley 5.00 5.00 Tortola 3.00 3.00 Tristan da Cunha 1.00 1.00 Total 31.00 32.00