To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many people his Department employs to maintain its social media and networking sites; and at what cost. (315937)

One full-time member of staff maintains the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's blog platform at:

http://blogs.fco.gov.uk

and free social media channels such as Twitter:

www.twitter.com/foreignoffice

It is not possible to separate out the cost of the blog platform from the cost of the global web platform.