The following table highlights the posts that received an uplift in 2008-09. The exchange rate risk for posts in the Americas is managed by a devolved budget holder. The budget holder received a total £7.595 million uplift to maintain post budgets in 2008-09.
Post Uplift received in 2008-09 Abu Dhabi 89,902 Abuja 751,193 Accra 477,031 Addis Ababa 156,942 Alexandria 21,500 Algiers 228,904 Amman 405,679 Amsterdam 17,735 Ankara 632,821 Ashgabat 52,011 Asmara 23,568 Astana 146,233 Athens 484,823 Auckland 9,450 Baghdad 261,830 Bahrain 61,242 Baku 304,787 Bandar Seri Begawan 85,111 Bangkok 390,981 Banjul 81,620 Basra 34,556 Beijing 1,090,543 Beirut 148,465 Belgrade 443,620 Berlin 817,569 Berne 483,561 Bordeaux 4,473 Bratislava 165,814 Brisbane 26,911 Brussels 1,701,033 Bucharest 170,041 Budapest 375,523 Cairo 297,047 Canberra 363,543 Capetown 25,497 Chennai 16,993 Chisinau 94,597 Chongqing 219,847 Colombo 409,930 Copenhagen 462,913 Dakar 84,857 Damascus 105,441 Dar es Salaam 121,414 Dhaka 263,196 Doha 248,162 Dubai 467,320 Dublin 441,892 Dushanbe 63,304 Dusseldorf 543,737 Ekaterinburg 61,387 Freetown 120,514 Geneva 617,328 Guangzhou 338,070 Hanoi 94,017 Harare 95,000 Helsinki 293,429 Ho Chi Minh City 74,672 Hong Kong 184,135 Honiara 13,830 Islamabad 81,925 Istanbul 243,005 Istanbul 243,005 Italian network 1,295,096 Jakarta 189,011 Jerusalem 312,782 Jo'burg 39,368 Kabul 818,168 Kampala 121,968 Karachi 6,442 Kathmandu 10,172 Khartoum 633,972 Kiev 390,733 Kigali 243,954 Kinshasa 84,087 Kolkata 8,202 Kuala Lumpur 77,313 Kuwait 319,527 Lagos 1,576,786 Lille 16,739 Lilongwe 40,894 Lisbon 333,442 Ljubljana 130,968 Luanda 163,161 Lusaka 184,315 Luxembourg 72,356 Lyon 11,768 Manila 191,687 Maputo 131,839 Marseille 405 Melbourne 38,791 Minsk 21,927 Moscow 1,037,768 Mumbai 42,389 Munich 143,222 Muscat 196,152 Nairobi 742,066 New Delhi 254,554 Nicosia 347,358 Osaka 411,217 Oslo 137,382 Paris 1,632,629 Perth 17,905 Phnom Penh 95,432 Port Louis 92,495 Port Moresby 23,919 Prague 420,557 Pretoria 169,078 Pristina 141,918 Rabat 214,806 Rangoon 142,402 Reykjavik -85,197 Riga 159,620 Riyadh 543,422 Sana'a 192,750 Sarajevo 143,148 Shanghai 369,585 Singapore 339,484 Skopje 120,945 Sofia 225,618 Spain network 1,384,831 St Petersburg 177,674 Stockholm 281,444 Strasbourg 9,158 Suva 51,014 Sydney 90,327 Taipei 232,491 Tallinn 158,157 Tashkent 127,370 Tbilisi 137,460 Tehran 512,350 Tel Aviv 523,376 The Hague 332,616 Tirana 76,686 Tokyo 2,283,701 Tripoli 302,539 Tunis 124,977 Ulaanbaatar 33,503 Valletta 131,263 Vienna 518,796 Vilnius 158,877 Warsaw 539,535 Wellington 27,922 Yaounde 85,956 Yerevan 107,561 Zagreb 175,617 Sub Total 40,815,638 + Americas 7,595,000 Total 48,410,638