§ Mr. SwinneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the number of his Department's employees based (i) overseas and (ii) in the United Kingdom, broken down by region; and if he will list the total wage bill, by region, of those based in the United Kingdom, providing separately the costs of any London allowances and weightings in the last year for which figures are available. [90567]
§ Mr. Tony LloydOn 1 April 1999, the FCO employed 5,493 UK-based staff in London and the South East and at posts overseas. Of these, 2,217 were serving overseas.
Total wage-bill expenditure on all UK-based staff (including the cost of Salaries, National Insurance, Shift Allowance, Superannuation, Overtime and Recruitment and Retention Allowance) for the financial year 1998–99 was £172.5 million.
Expenditure in 1997–99 on London allowances and weightings, which forms part of the Recruitment and Retention Allowance budget, was £7.9 million.