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Mr. Grocott
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the British embassies extant in 1975 in order of the cost of their operation in that year, indicating also the number of staff employed.
Mr. Tomlinson
The information is as follows:
| Embassy/High Commission | UK-based staff | Locally-engaged-staff |
| Washington | 137 | 198 |
| Paris | 95 | 168 |
| Bonn | 96 | 163 |
| Tokyo | 67 | 104 |
| Brussels | 45 | 90 |
| Lagos | 56 | 105 |
| New Delhi | 65 | 223 |
| Tehran | 45 | 77 |
| Rome | 45 | 75 |
| Moscow | 61 | 63 |
| Nicosia | 33 | 51 |
| Ottawa | 30 | 82 |
| Nairobi | 48 | 137 |
| Embassy/High Commission | UK-based staff | Locally-engaged-staff |
| Vienna | 33 | 71 |
| Islamabad | 70 | 115 |
| Canberra | 34 | 73 |
| Singapore | 40 | 87 |
| Warsaw | 52 | 57 |
| Dacca | 44 | 124 |
| Beirut | 40 | 71 |
| Madrid | 31 | 61 |
| Jakarta | 32 | 95 |
| Kuala Lumpur | 36 | 79 |
| Jedda | 24 | 50 |
| Athens | 30 | 76 |
| Copenhagen | 23 | 59 |
| Stockholm | 24 | 39 |
| The Hague | 24 | 44 |
| Ankara | 31 | 53 |
| Kuwait | 22 | 50 |
| Pretoria | 35 | 41 |
| Bangkok | 32 | 97 |
| Mexico City | 18 | 68 |
| Caracas | 18 | 42 |
| Tel Aviv | 30 | 48 |
| Brasilia | 18 | 50 |
| Cairo | 37 | 74 |
| Kingston | 20 | 47 |
| Helsinki | 27 | 37 |
| Peking | 29 | 33 |
| Budapest | 29 | 37 |
| Accra | 29 | 59 |
| Kinshasa | 19 | 67 |
| Lisbon | 19 | 59 |
| Belgrade | 25 | 52 |
| East Berlin | 27 | 27 |
| Oslo | 15 | 31 |
| Baghdad | 18 | 46 |
| Buenos Aires | 22 | 68 |
| Berne | 11 | 27 |
| Lusaka | 27 | 55 |
| Prague | 32 | 50 |
| Abu Dhabi | 16 | 34 |
| Addis Ababa | 18 | 71 |
| Port of Spain | 18 | 38 |
| Wellington | 17 | 44 |
| Muscat | 11 | 43 |
| Seoul | 13 | 37 |
| Khartoum | 19 | 45 |
| Tripoli | 15 | 44 |
| Kampala | 17 | 28 |
| Amman | 22 | 39 |
| Bucharest | 21 | 31 |
| Dar es Salaam | 20 | 40 |
| Dublin | 19 | 48 |
| Havana | 17 | 27 |
| Santiago | 13 | 38 |
| Colombo | 16 | 65 |
| Lima | 11 | 38 |
| Sofia | 20 | 29 |
| Lilongwe | 19 | 25 |
| Bridgetown | 14 | 36 |
| Manila | 12 | 39 |
| Algiers | 10 | 26 |
| Dakar | 12 | 26 |
| Georgetown | 16 | 41 |
| Gaborone | 12 | 25 |
| Freetown | 13 | 53 |
| Nassau | 5 | 17 |
| Bogota | 10 | 36 |
| Sana'a | 10 | 40 |
| Yaounde | 8 | 27 |
| Vientiane | 13 | 35 |
| Damascus | 10 | 29 |
| Port Louis | 11 | 32 |
| Embassy/High Commission | UK-based staff | Locally-engaged-staff |
| Valletta | 15 | 32 |
| Bahrain | 7 | 28 |
| Hanoi | 6 | 10 |
| Abidjan | 6 | 17 |
| Doha | 7 | 25 |
| La Paz | 8 | 22 |
| Luxembourg | 7 | 12 |
| Rangoon | 10 | 63 |
| Kabul | 11 | 45 |
| Montevideo | 4 | 29 |
| Panama City | 5 | 20 |
| Aden | 10 | 24 |
| Mbabane | 10 | 23 |
| Rabat | 8 | 29 |
| Quito | 8 | 25 |
| Kathmandu | 11 | 46 |
| Port Moresby | 5 | 10 |
| Suva | 8 | 10 |
| Tunis | 8 | 29 |
| Banjul | 6 | 22 |
| Brunei | 6 | 9 |
| Maseru | 8 | 22 |
| Monrovia | 5 | 19 |
| Maputo | 6 | 18 |
| Mogadishu | 5 | 27 |
| San Jose | 4 | 16 |
| Santo Domingo | 4 | 14 |
| Asuncion | 4 | 12 |
| Managua | 4 | 16 |
| Reykjavik | 5 | 9 |
| San Salvador | 4 | 20 |
| Ulan Bator | 4 | 9 |
| Tananarive | 3 | 14 |
| Nuku'alofa | 2 | 7 |