§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff the Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which the Department is responsible had in each year since 1997; and what the cost of those staff was in each of those years. [122252]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienThe number of staff and the cost of those staff for which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and each agency and non-departmental body it is responsible for in each year since 1997 are as follows:
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1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 British Association for Central/Eastern Europe 4 4 4 4 4 4 £000 125.1 124.4 124.2 137.5 140.1 149.2 British Council 6,594 6,961 7,352 7,316 7,379 7,298 £000,000 120.2 125.5 134.4 141.3 143.8 148.2 Great Britain—China Centre 4 4 5 5 5 5 £000 108.6 120 133.7 137.7 144.5 141