To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many of his Department's officials based in the UK work on trade promotion matters; and how many did so in 1997. (279807)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) staff in the UK working on trade and investment are based in UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), a joint organisation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Currently 31 FCO civil servants are working in UKTI in offices in the UK. Two of these staff are on temporary short-term attachments.

Neither the FCO nor UKTI hold data on workforce deployments in 1997.