To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff were employed by each (a) team and (b) programme within the Europe Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in each year since 1990. (137581)

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) does not record or compile annual data on the number of staff working in individual teams or programmes within FCO directorates. To carry out the research to collate this information would incur disproportionate cost.