Diplomatic Service: Manpower

Mr. Hague
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what his Department's 10 highest-staffed missions abroad are; and how many (a) UK-based and (b) locally-engaged personnel are employed in each.

Mr. Douglas Alexander
The 10 highest-staffed DFID offices are shown in the following table with breakdown of home civil servants (HCS), and staff appointed in country (SAIC—locally engaged staff), as at the end of June 2008.

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|Office                           |HCS|SAIC|Total|
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|DFID Bangladesh                  |20 |75  |95   |
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|DFID India                       |20 |69  |89   |
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|DFID Nigeria                     |26 |49  |75   |
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|DFID Pakistan                    |20 |32  |52   |
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|DFID Ethiopia                    |19 |33  |52   |
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|DFID Nepal                       |14 |36  |50   |
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|DFID Malawi                      |12 |36  |48   |
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|DFID Democratic Republic of Congo|15 |28  |43   |
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|DFID Kenya and Somalia           |10 |32  |42   |
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|DFID Uganda                      |11 |29  |40   |
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