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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 2049W, on exchange rates, which posts overseas reported a decline in the purchasing power of their local budget; and what the value in UK sterling was of the total reported decline. (243945)

As of November 2008 a total of 168 posts reported a decline in the purchasing power of their local budget. The total value of this reported decline was £44,176,397 (£27.9 million in April 2008 and a further £16.3 million as of October 2008).

Set out in the following table are the posts that reported a decline and the value of this decline.

Annex A

£000

Post

Total overseas price movement impact as of October 2008

Abu Dhabi

252.8

Abuja

751.2

Accra

98.0

Addis Ababa

83.4

Algiers

310.2

Amman

405.7

Amsterdam

119.4

Anguilla

12.4

Ankara

501.7

Ashgabat

52.0

Asmara

11.6

Astana

146.2

Athens

546.6

Atlanta

70.5

Auckland

15.3

Baghdad

601.5

Bahrain

61.2

Baku

304.8

Bandar Seri Begawan

55.9

Bangkok

241.0

Banjul

66.9

Basra

251.0

Beijing

940.5

Beirut

148.5

Belgrade

443.6

Belmopan

92.7

Berlin

751.9

Berne

400.3

Bogota

297.1

Bordeaux

15.1

Boston

77.2

Brasilia

564.2

Bratislava

149.5

Bridgetown

135.3

Brisbane

39.3

Brussels

1,481.4

Bucharest

170.0

Budapest

375.5

Buenos Aires

534.3

Cairo

297.0

Canberra

444.1

Cape Town

50.6

Caracas

426.7

Castries

12.7

Chennai

17.0

Chicago

105.5

Chisinau

94.6

Chongqing

79.2

Colombo

389.9

Copenhagen

40.4

Dakar

76.5

Damascus

66.6

Dar Es Salaam

111.9

Dhaka

263.2

Doha

220.2

Dubai

467.3

Dublin

416.9

Dushanbe

63.3

Dusseldorf

505.5

Ekaterinburg

61.4

Freetown

82.0

Gaborone

21.8

Geneva

557.3

Georgetown

61.2

Grand Cayman

15.3

Grand Turk

26.1

Guangzhou

338.1

Guatemala City

101.1

Hanoi

152.6

Havana

83.9

Helsinki

293.4

Ho Chi Minh City

68.5

Hong Kong

375.9

Honiara

16.0

Houston

100.6

Islamabad

176.1

Istanbul

474.2

Jakarta

189.0

Jerusalem

312.8

Johannesburg

51.3

Kabul

818.2

Kampala

110.2

Karachi

6.4

Kathmandu

10.2

Khartoum

303.6

Kiev

390.7

Kigali

53.3

Kingston

361.7

Kinshasa

211.2

Kolkata

8.2

Kuala Lumpur

165.5

Kuwait

348.0

La Paz

92.4

Lagos

1,008.9

Lille

16.7

Lilongwe

47.2

Lima

175.4

Lisbon

283.9

Ljubljana

121.0

Los Angeles

151.1

Luanda

72.3

Lusaka

204.2

Luxembourg

79.1

Lyon

13.3

Madrid

1,202.1

Manila

265.1

Maputo

131.8

Marseille

0.4

Melbourne

70.2

Mexico City

348.2

Minsk

57.1

Montevideo

205.6

Montreal

17.1

Moscow

314.3

Mumbai

24.8

Munich

131.6

Muscat

196.2

Nairobi

576.8

New Delhi

158.6

New York BCG

272.1

New York UKMIS

59.6

Nicosia

347.4

Osaka

202.5

Oslo

157.4

Ottawa

279.4

Panama City

59.6

Paris

1,615.9

Perth

32.2

Phnom Penh

136.4

Plymouth

13.2

Port Louis

92.5

Port Moresby

69.1

Port of Spain

172.8

Prague

453.9

Pretoria

169.1

Pristina

141.9

Quito

66.9

Rabat

278.1

Rangoon

173.3

Riga

145.1

Rio de Janeiro

276.4

Riyadh

543.4

Rome

1,135.6

San Francisco

89.8

San Jose

62.5

Sanaa

192.7

Santiago

199.0

Santo Domingo

29.9

Sao Paulo

357.2

Sarajevo

166.4

Shanghai

369.6

Singapore

339.5

Skopje

250.2

Sofia

266.3

St. Georges

3.4

St. Johns

4.1

St. Petersburg

217.0

Stockholm

281.4

Strasbourg

3.5

Suva

51.0

Sydney

126.5

Taipei

150.1

Tallinn

145.5

Tashkent

127.4

Tbilisi

203.1

Tehran

643.8

Tel Aviv

523.4

The Hague

331.5

Tirana

64.1

Tokyo

923.7

Toronto

108.5

Tortola

15.3

Tripoli

302.5

Tunis

125.0

Ulaanbaatar

33.5

Valletta

113.9

Vancouver

39.5

Victoria

7.5

Vienna

568.5

Vilnius

108.0

Warsaw

615.9

Washington

617.9

Wellington

49.6

Yaounde

97.5

Yerevan

107.6

Zagreb

213.8

Total OPM Uplift

44,176.4