HC Deb 03 February 1999 vol 324 cc678-82W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the entertainment budgets for each of his Department's posts abroad in the last financial year. [68171]

Mr. Fatchett

Overseas posts' budgets, including entertainment budgets, are devolved to each post. No central record is kept of detailed budget allocations for each post, and they could only be provided at excessive cost. However, central records are kept of posts expenditure, and the figures for 1997–98 are set out below.

Post Spend 1997–98
Abidjan 12,575
Abu Dhabi 30,398
Abuja 5,920
Accra 24,015
Addis Ababa 16,239
Alexandria 9,845
Algiers 5,972
Almaty 9,917
Amman 38,907
Amsterdam 13,655
Anguilla 11,187
Ankara 33,882
Antananarivo 2,375
Ashgabat 15,311
Asuncion 5,726
Athens 73,370
Atlanta 56,803
Auckland 31,784
Aus Africa: Rmo 1135
Bahrain 13,249
Baku 2,704
Bandar Seri Begawan 15,475
Bangkok 59,262
Banjul 5,354
Barcelona (Inc. Andorra) 24,902
Beirut 16,285
Belgrade 35,446
Belmopan 6,536
Berlin 77,693
Berne 70,812
Bilbao 3,706
Bogota (Inc. Medellin) 15,947
Bombay 30,388
Bonn 132,293
Bordeaux 28,988
Boston 43,673
Brasilia 49,634
Bratislava 12,336
Bridgetown 45,025
Brisbane 39,013
Brussels 2394,845
Brussels Jmo 408
Bucharest 19,988
Budapest 35,710
Buenos Aires 78,205
Cairo 69,343
Calcutta 13,637
Canberra 59,207
Cape Town 15,418
Caracas 28,265
Casablanca 15,040
Castries 11,551
Chicago 41,899
Cleveland 14,792
Colombo (Inc. Maldives) 26,599
Conakry (Bhc Freetown) 246
Copenhagen (Inc. Torshavn) 37,389
Dakar (Inc. Conakry) 15,422
Post Spend 1997–98
Damascus 19,916
Dar Es Salaam 18,810
Dhaka 26,918
Doha 21,844
Dubai 67,820
Dublin 40,379
Durban 5,512
Dusseldorf 19,213
Ekaterinburg 15,849
Frankfurt 33,477
Freetown 3,238
Gaborone 5,162
Geneva Cg 3218,055
Georgetown 8,598
Gibraltar 41,087
Grand Cayman 1,589
Grand Turk 4,866
Guangzhou 17,204
Guatemala City 8,097
Hamburg 54,777
Hanoi 22,445
Harare 22,839
Havana 27,426
Helsinki 48,769
Ho Chi Minh City 25,380
Hong Kong Btc 90,105
Honiara 342
Houston 65,068
Islamabad 59,998
Istanbul 33,140
Jakarta 65,308
Jedda 67,547
Jerusalem 12,557
Johannesburg 36,787
Kabul 146
Kampala 18,387
Karachi 14,475
Kathmandu 10,228
Khartoum 13,224
Kiev 24,655
Kigali 4,380
Kingston 24,732
Kingstown 7,491
Kinshasa 9,222
Kuala Lumpur 69,053
Kuwait 28,793
La Paz 9,967
Lagos (Inc. Cotonou) 48,987
Lille 28,710
Lilongwe (Inc. Blantyre) 14,526
Lima 31,047
Lisbon 74,361
Ljubljana 13,462
Los Angeles 24,369
Luanda 20,448
Lusaka 24,986
Luxembourg 15,170
Lyon 38,213
Madras 16,691
Madrid 130,255
Managua 13,432
Manila 28,010
Maputo 9,953
Marseilles 37,093
Maseru 3,987
Mbabane 4,766
Melbourne 50,336
Mexico City 44,683
Milan 31,621
Minsk 4,459
Montevideo 13,920
Montreal 36,387
Moscow 151,364
Munich 44,061
Post Spend 1997–98
Muscat 42,543
Nairobi 43,896
Naples 23,650
Nassau 11,063
New Delhi 155,005
New York Cg 4259,174
Nicosia 76,269
Nuku'Alofa 1,168
Osaka 121,138
Oslo 42,416
Ottawa 60,570
Palma 10,904
Panama City 9,903
Peking 83,780
Perth 33,026
Phnom Penh 4,972
Plymouth 4,542
Port Louis 9,217
Port Moresby 7,960
Port of Spain 12,781
Prague 34,363
Pretoria 35,716
Quito 8,886
Rabat 13,378
Rangoon 7,394
Reykjavik 9,096
Riga 14,705
Rio De Janeiro 19,386
Riyadh 84,815
Rome 100,644
San Francisco 67,800
San Jose 3,779
San Salvador 10,383
Sana'A 32,949
Santiago 57,206
Santo Domingo 3,492
Sao Paulo 81,278
Sarajevo 19,218
Seattle 16,709
Seoul 95,443
Shanghai 32,469
Singapore 55,607
Skopje 3,498
Sofia 14,788
St. George's 7,920
St. John's 14,618
St. Petersburg 35,726
Stanley 3,500
Stockholm 34,201
Strasbourg-Council of Europe 14,810
Suva 15,488
Sydney 95,523
Taipei Btco 32,416
Tallinn 2,411
Tashkent 8,321
Tbilisi 12,330
Tegucigalpa 4,057
Tehran 12,629
Tel Aviv 47,444
The Hague 73,533
Tirana 2,962
Tokyo 670,142
Toronto 42,038
Tortola 6,629
Tripoli 9,469
Tunis 13,131
Ulaanbaatar 7,099
Valletta 13,837
Vancouver 36,718
Victoria 6,025
Vienna 87,978
Vila 8,211
Vilnius 8,843
Warsaw 69,614
Post Spend 1997–98
Washington 254,762
Wellington 49,362
Windhoek 8,143
Yaounde 9,969
Yerevan 4,864
Zagreb 14,533
Zurich 11,918
Total 8,271,861
1 Charge for entertainment at an overseas post (signed off by NAO)
2 Includes UKMIS and UKREP
3 Including UKMIS and IKDIS Geneva
4 Including UKMIS and BIS New York