§ Mr. WyattTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what were the annual running costs in the last year for which figures are available of(a) the United Kingdom's embassies in the EU, (b) the British Embassy in Washington DC, (c) the British Consulate General in San Francisco and (d) the British embassies and consulates in the USA in total. [102444]
§ Mr. HainThe running costs (in pounds sterling) for 1998–99 are as follows:
Countries £ (a) Embassies in the EU Austria 1,624,989 Belgium 1,613,336 Denmark 1,979,145 Eire 2,021,151 Finland 1,622,182 France 8,311,896 Germany 5,334,710 Greece 3,020,542 Italy 5,689,673 Luxembourg 904,600 Netherlands 2,377,494 Portugal 2,223,375 Spain 5,850,231 Sweden 1,917,642 Total 44,490,966 (b) British Embassy Washington DC 14,288,628 (c) Consulate General San Francisco 634,434 (d) USA in Total USA Total 20,720,979 The costs of the Embassies include spend, incurred at post, on behalf of their subordinate posts.The figures given are purely the cash element charged to the posts in question.
No support costs have been included.