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Overseas Trade Promotion

Mr. Fatchett: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list (a) the number and (b) the location of staff in his Department employed to promote British trade overseas. [3026]

Mr. Hanley [holding answer 4 December 1995]: The location and the number of staff whose responsibilities lie primarily in promoting trade with the United Kingdom are listed in the table.

There are in addition a large number of staff who contribute a lower proportion of their time directly to export promotion. For example, all heads of mission are an important part of the trade promotion effort. Staff engaged in political, economic and information also make a significant contribution to export and inward investment effort.

Number and location of staff employed to promote British trade overseas (as at 31 May 1995)

Location of mission	Number of staff
Abidjan	4
Abu Dhabi	7
Abuja	1
Accra	5
Addis Ababa	1
Aden	2
Al Khobar	4
Alexandria	2
Algiers	3
Almaty	3
Amman	6
Ankara	8
Antananarivo	2
Ashgabat	2
Asuncion	2
Athens	9
Atlanta	7
Auckland	9
Baghdad	6
Bahrain	5
Baku	1
Bandar Seri Begawan	3
Bangalore	2
Bangkok	15
Barcelona	7
Beirut	4
Belgrade	5
Belmopan	1
Belo Horizonte	1
Berlin	13
Berne	2
Bilbao	3
Bogota	7
Bombay	12
Bordeaux	2
Boston	6
Brasilia	4
Bratislava	2
Bridgetown	3
Brisbane	5
Brussels	11
Brussels Ukrep	3
Bucharest	6
Budapest	10
Buenos Aires	10
Cairo	9
Calcutta	6
Canberra	2
Cape Town	4
Caracas	8
Casablanca	5
Castries	1
Chiang Mai	1
Chicago	14
Cleveland	5
Colombo	5
Copenhagen	14
Dakar	1
Dallas	4
Damascus	5
Dar Es Salaam	5
Dhaka	3
Doha	6
Douala	1
Dubai	12
Dublin	7
Durban	2
Dusseldorf	20
Ekaterinburg	1
Florence	2
Frankfurt	10
Freetown	1
Gaborone	2
Geneva CG	3
Georgetown	2
Gothenburg	2
Guatemala City	2
Hamburg	9
Hanoi	7
Harare	5
Havana	2
Helsinki	11
Ho Chi Minh	5
Hong Kong BTC	13
Hong Kong CTU	4
Honiara	1
Houston	5
Islamabad	7
Istanbul	10
Jakarta	15
Jedda	8
Jerusalem	2
Johannesburg	15
Kaduna	2
Kampala	3
Kano	1
Karachi	7
Kathmandu	2
Khartoum	1
Kiev	4
Kingston	4
Kingstown	1
Kinshasa	1
Kuala Lumpur	19
Kuching	1
Kuwait	9
La Paz	2
Lagos	13
Las Palmas	2
Lille	4
Lilongwe	2
Lima	3
Lisbon	14
Ljubljana	4
Lome	1
Los Angeles	7
Luanda	2
Lusaka	4
Luxembourg	2
Lyons	6
Madras	8
Madrid	18
Managua	1
Manila	5
Maputo	1
Marseilles	3
Melbourne	10
Mexico City	11
Miami	4
Milan	22
Minsk	1
Montevideo	3
Montreal	5
Moscow	12
Munich	7
Muscat	6
Nagoya	3
Nairobi	8
Naples	3
Nassau	1
New Delhi	16
New York CG	20
Nicosia	6
Oporto	3
Osaka	11
Oslo	12
Panama City	2
Paris	27
Peking	14
Perth	5
Phnom Penh	2
Port Harcourt	2
Port Louis	3
Port Moresby	2
Port of Spain	4
Prague	10
Pusan	1
Quito	4
Rabat	1
Rangoon	4
Recife	1
Reykjavik	2
Riga	2
Rio de Janeiro	8
Riyadh	16
Rome	8
San Francisco	6
San Jose	4
San Juan	1
San Salvador	2
Sana'a	4
Santiago	7
Santo Domingo	2
Sao Paulo	9
Seattle	4
Seoul	17
Seville	2
Shanghai	4
Singapore	16
Sofia	5
St. John's	1
St. Petersburg	3
Stockholm	14
Stuttgart	5
Suva	2
Sydney	12
Tallinn	1
Tashkent	1
Tbilisi	1
Tegucigalpa	1
Tehran	6
Tel Aviv	6
The Hague	12
Tirana	1
Tokyo	33
Toronto	9
Tunis	4
Ulaanbaatar	1
Valletta	3
Vancouver	7
Vienna	7
Vilnius	2
Warsaw	11
Washington	5
Wellington	2
Yaounde	1
Yerevan	1
Zagreb	2
Zurich	12

There are currently three UK-based officers seconded to the British trade cultural office, Taipei. A further five locally engaged staff are also employed by the British trade cultural office. London: Joint export and promotion department: 22 staff.

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TRANSPORT

Motoring Offences

Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research his Department has conducted into the number of occasions in which a driver facing court action for motoring offences involving personal injury is subsequently involved in another motor accident prior to the original case coming to court; and if he will list the statistics collated by his Department over any convenient period. [5357]

Mr. Norris: The information requested is not available.

Brunel Thames Tunnel

Mr. Dowd: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to make an announcement on the latest application by London Transport for repairs to the Brunel tunnel under the Thames. [5017]

Mr. Norris: A revised application by London Underground Ltd. for listed building consent to carry out works to the Thames tunnel has recently been notified to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment. The application is currently under consideration. It is hoped that a decision on whether it should be called in will be made shortly.

Unleaded Petrol

Sir Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of petrol sales are accounted for by unleaded fuel. [4539]

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Mr. Norris: Figures on petrol sales are not recorded. However, deliveries of unleaded petrol to retail outlets accounted for 63.75 per cent. of total petrol deliveries in September 1995.

Coaches

Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many buses and coaches in Great Britain re-registered with Northern Ireland registration marks have consequently failed to meet the annual testing requirements for such vehicles; [4498]

(2) how many buses and coaches re-registered with Northern Ireland registration marks or first registered with Northern Ireland registration marks were subject to spot checks by the Vehicle Inspectorate were found to be (a) roadworthy, (b) unroadworthy, (c) unroadworthy and subjected to disciplinary action against the operator by the Traffic Commissioner, in each of the last five years. [4499]

Mr. Norris: The information is not available in the form requested. Test failure and enforcement statistics are not recorded in terms of registrations marks.

Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many buses and coaches in Great Britain which have been re-registered with registration marks originating from Northern Ireland in each of the last 10 years were (a) between five and 10 years old, (b) between 10 and 15 years old, (c) between 15 and 20 years and (d) older than 20 years at the time of this re-registration. [4497]

Mr. Norris: The information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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