HC Deb 09 January 2002 vol 377 cc912-6W
Mr. Vaz

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the entertainment budget for each British embassy and consulate for financial year 2000–01. [23778]

Mr. MacShane

Entertainment budgets are not held at embassy and post level. However, actual expenditure is recorded and the figures for 2000–01 are detailed in the table. A composite figure is shown where the FCO has more than one representation in a city.

£
Post Total
Paris 305,231
Tokyo 302,731
New York 267,024
Washington 226,400
Brussels 205,744
Berlin 158,251
Moscow 127,739
Hong Kong 115,156
Buenos Aires 105,381
Seoul 105,117
Geneva 91,927
Peking 88,212
Madrid 82,297
Rome 78,985
Vienna 75,033
Ottawa 68,189
Cairo 63,938
Dublin 61,465
Islamabad 61,232
Atlanta 60,077
Chicago 59,426
Warsaw 59,009
Santiago 57,590
Riyadh 57,440
Jakarta 56,706
Mexico City 56,562
New Delhi 56,153
Singapore 55,951
Tripoli 52,383
Lagos 51,900
Tel Aviv 51,551
Athens 51,422
Zagreb 49,771
Nairobi 49,485
Kuala Lumpur 48,446
Hague, The 47,596
Stockholm 47,149
Prague 46,609
Muscat 46,536
Copenhagen 46,144
Berne 45,323
Canberra 44,720
Houston 44,576
Brasília 44,455
Accra 44,397
Caracas 44,116
Sydney 43,684
Manila 43,652
Ankara 42,517
Nicosia 41,841
Los Angeles 41,287
Ljubljana 39,812
Budapest 39,658
Sarajevo 39,347
Helsinki 39,273
Oslo 38,646
Pretoria 38,596
Bangkok 38,031
Grand Turk 37,912
Taipei 37,550
Kuwait 36,862
Shanghai 36,592
Amman 35,951
Hanoi 35,679
Abuja 35,644
Bridgetown 35,252
Beirut 34,790
Baku 34,423
Lisbon 34,393
Kingston 33,993
£
Post Total
Boston 33,752
Abu Dhabi 33,174
Dusseldorf 32,547
Havana 32,128
Doha 31,905
Dhaka 31,679
Bahrain 30,235
Plymouth 30,096
Bandar Seri Begawan 29,826
Osaka 29,780
Bogotá 29,540
Belgrade 28,790
Khartoum 28,704
Sanaa 28,697
São Paulo 28,638
Damascus 27,804
Gibraltar 27,107
Bucharest 26,918
Hamburg 26,726
Nassau 26,480
Luanda 26,390
St. Petersburg 26,284
Riga 25,764
Harare 25,720
Strasbourg 25,235
Lima 24,963
Freetown 24,591
Vancouver 24,423
Vilnius 24,357
Ho Chi Minh City 24,328
Bombay 23,855
Milan 23,489
Valletta 23,369
Abidjan 23,358
Brisbane 23,289
Dubai 22,941
Dakar 22,904
San Francisco 22,543
Colombo 22,536
Wellington 22,412
Lusaka 22,387
Tehran 22,057
Jerusalem 21,713
Kampala 21,461
Kinshasa 21,012
Yaounde 20,853
Maputo 20,701
Addis Ababa 20,365
Minsk 20,023
St. Helena 19,821
Sofia 19,772
Istanbul 19,680
Stanley 19,576
Port of Spain 19,574
Panama City 19,402
Tallinn 19,384
Montreal 19,365
Santo Domingo 19,090
Tunis 18,790
Cape Town 18,544
Toronto 18,501
Tortola 18,485
Reykjavik 18,339
Marseilles 18,242
Rabat 17,722
Kiev 17,647
Jedda 17,475
Almaty 17,096
Gaborone 17,072
Dar es Salaam 16,999
£
Post Total
Madras 16,885
Ekaterinburg 16,740
Quito 16,709
Tirana 16,468
Karachi 16,254
Munich 16,189
Belmopan 16,164
Anguilla 16,158
Asunción 15,920
Port Louis 15,537
Luxembourg 15,490
Melbourne 15,383
Johannesburg 15,216
Lyon 14,844
La Paz 14,760
Montevideo 14,601
Pristina 14,274
Perth 14,099
Barcelona 14,080
Kigali 13,871
Vila 13,854
Port Moresby 13,823
Frankfurt 13,676
Lilongwe 13,473
Tegucigalpa 13,318
Ashgabat 13,049
San Salvador 12,816
Rio de Janeiro 12,760
Phnom Penh 12,607
Georgetown 12,529
Bratislava 12,465
Victoria 11,853
Kathmandu 11,786
Skopje 11,460
Managua 11,247
Suva 11,180
Alexandria 11,043
Tbilisi 11,030
Naples 11,028
Casablanca 10,889
Ulaanbaatar 10,616
San José 10,564
Algiers 10,300
Rangoon 10,246
Guatemala City 10,021
Bordeaux 10,001
Auckland 9,928
Yerevan 9,927
Chongqing 9,843
Seattle 9,777
Lille 9,527
Castries 9,333
Nuku Alofa 8,814
Dili 8,649
Calcutta 8,565
Banjul 8,454
Mbabane 8,308
Honiara 8,248
Tashkent 8,149
St. John's 7,809
Holy See 7,758
Windhoek 7,537
Amsterdam 7,134
Maseru 6,987
Antananarivo 6,077
Bilbao 6,052
Palma 5,677
Durban 5,419
St. George's 4,249
Kingstown 3,821
£
Post Total
Conakry 3,012
Grand Cayman 1,340
Guangzhou 621
Pyongyang 335
Total 7,347,976
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