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Departmental Foreign Workers

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many UK staff his Department employs in each country overseas. (180822)

The number of UK staff employed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in each country overseas, is shown in the following table:

DFID country offices—full delegated authority

Country

All HCS

Afghanistan

24

Bangladesh

22

Burma

3

Burundi

3

Cambodia

8

Caribbean regional (Barbados)—covers country offices in:

2

Guyana

4

Jamaica

1

Haiti

1

China

8

Democratic republic of Congo

13

Ethiopia

18

Ghana

9

India1

23

Indonesia

2

Kenya

12

Malawi

14

Mozambique

10

Nepal

13

Nigeria (Abuja)2

27

Pakistan

22

Rwanda

9

Sierra Leone (covering Liberia)

14

South-east Asia (Thailand—closes 2008)

5

South Africa (Pretoria)—covers country offices in:

11

Angola

1

Lesotho

1

Sudan

17

Tanzania

9

Uganda

14

Vietnam

7

Zambia

10

Zimbabwe

8

Bosnia

1

Kosovo

1

Kyrgyzstan

2

Tajikistan

2

Ukraine

1

Serbia and Montenegro

1

Bolivia

1

Brazil

2

Nicaragua

2

Iraq

7

Jerusalem (Palestinian territories)

5

Yemen

3

Montserrat

4

St. Helena

6

Gambia

1

Belgium—EU and UKrep

7

France—OECD and UNESCO

2

Italy—UNFAO

2

Switzerland—UKMIS

1

USA—World Bank and Un

1

Grand total (all staff overseas)

397

1 India numbers include those staff in the state offices in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya, Orissa and West Bengal.

2 Nigeria numbers include those staff in the state offices in Lagos, Kano and Enugu.