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Embassies And High Commissions (Costs)

Volume 925: debated on Tuesday 1 February 1977

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, following his answer on 10th January regarding costs of embassies and high commissions, he will sub-divide the figures given to indicate the costs properly due to be apportioned to the Ministry of Defence.

The figures I quoted on 10th January related, as is customary, to the expenditure borne by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and to costs attributable in part to Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Property Services Agency. A relatively small but unquantifiable part of the total related to property occupied by defence staffs. Other provision for these staffs is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, who has made available the following information:

£ million
Embassy/High CommissionAnnual costs in 1975Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Washington3·681·48
Paris2·950·25
Bonn2·390·17
Tokyo2·190·12
Brussels1·470·06
Lagos1·400·06
New Delhi1·300·09
Tehran1·130·12
Rome1·120·12
Moscow1·100·19
Sana'a0·23
Yaounde0·23
Vientiane0·23
Damascus0·22
Port Louis0·22
Valletta0·22
Bahrain0·21
Hanoi0·21
Abidjan0·20
Doha0·20
La Paz0·20
Luxembourg0·20
Rangoon0·200·02
Kabul0·19
Montevideo0·19
Panama City0·19
Aden0·18
Mbabane0·17
Rabat0·170·02
Quito0·170·02
Kathmandu0·160·02
Port Moresby0·16
Suva0·16
Tunis0·16
Banjul0·14
Brunei0·14
Maseru0·14
Monrovia0·14
Maputo0·13
Mogadishu0·13
San Jose0·11
Santo Domingo0·11
Asuncion0·10
Managua0·10
£ million
Embassy/High CommissionAnnual costs in 1975Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Reykyavik0·10
East Berlin0·47
Oslo0·470·07
Baghdad0·450·05
Buenos Aires0·450·05
Berne0·430·05
Lusaka0·43
Prague0·420·04
Abu Dhabi0·400·03
Addis Ababa0·400·02
Port of Spain0·40
Wellington0·400·05
Muscat0·390·04
Seoul0·390·02
Khartoum0·380·04
Tripoli0·37
Kampala0·37
Amman0·360·05
Bucharest0·340·04
Dar es Salam0·34
Dublin0·340·01
Havana0·34
Santiago0·330·02
Colombo0·320·02
Lima0·320·03
Sofia0·320·03
Lilongwe0·31
Bridgetown0·29
Manila0·280·02
Algiers0·27
Dakar0·27
Georgetown0·27
Gaborone0·26
Freetown0·25
Nassau0·240·03
Bogota0·230·02
Nicosia1·070·02
Ottawa0·950·22
Nairobi0·940·05
Vienna0·920·02
Islamabad0·880·07
Canberra0·860·27
Singapore0·860·05
Warsaw0·800·07
Dacca0·78
Beirut0·770·02
Madrid0·770·07
Jakarta0·740·06
Kuala Lumpur0·740·07
Jedda0·720·04
Athens0·700·06
Copenhagen0·670·06
Stockholm0·670·08
The Hague0·660·08
Ankara0·600·07
Kuwait0·590·01
Pretoria0·590·08
Bangkok0·580·05
Mexico City0·580·02
Caracas0·570·03
Tel Aviv0·570·06
Brasilia0·560·08
Cairo0·560·06
Kingston0·55
Helsinki0·540·03
Peking0·520·03
£ million
Embassy/High CommissionAnnual costs in 1975Additional costs attributable to the Ministry of Defence expenditure
Budapest0·51
Accra0·500·02
Kinshasa0·500·03
Lisbon0·480·06
Belgrade0·470·05
San Salvador0·10
Ulan Bator0·09
Tananarive0·08
Nuku'alofa0·04
Other provision for these staffs is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence, who has made available the following information: