To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, column 1240W, on departmental public expenditure, what efficiency savings have been (a) made in 2008-09 and (b) identified for financial year 2009-10; and what the estimated saving from each is. (261937)

I refer the right hon. Member to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) 2008 autumn performance report published in December 2008, available online at:

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/publications/publications/annual-reports/autumn-performance1

This gives the actual efficiency savings, for each efficiency project, for the first six months of 2008-09 and forecast savings for 2009-10 and 2010-11.

The FCO’s departmental report, to be published in June 2009, will provide actual efficiency savings for the whole of 2008-09 and latest forecast savings for 2009-10 and 2010-11.