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Embassy Costs

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the running costs of each British high commission and embassy in the latest year for which figures are available. [196866]

Mr. Rammell: The net running costs of each British high commission and embassy, for the latest years for which figures are available, are listed in the following tables together with the year to which they relate.
High commission name£ million
2003–04Abuja8.3
2003–04Accra4.8
2003–04Bandar Seri Begawan1.3
2003–04Banjul.7
2003–04Belmopan2.5
2003–04Bridgetown2.6
2003–04Canberra.1
2002–03Castries.3
2002–03Colombo2.1
2003–04Dar es Salaam1.6
2002–03Dhaka2.8
2003–04Freetown1.8
2003–04Gaborone.8
2002–03Georgetown1.0
2003–04Harare2.3
2003–04Honiara.5
2002–03Islamabad6.3
2003–04Kampala2.4
2002–03Kingston2.9
2002–03Kingstown.3
2003–04Kuala Lumpur4.2
2003–04Lilongwe1.4
2003–04Lusaka1.7
2003–04Maputo5.1
2003–04Mbabane.7
2003–04Nairobi3.7
2003–04Nassau.9
2002–03New Delhi8.1
2003–04Nicosia3.0
2003–04Nuku'Alofa.3
2003–04Ottawa2.1
2003–04Port Louis.9
2003–04Port Moresby.8
2002–03Port of Spain1.6
2003–04Pretoria1.6
2003–04Singapore4.7
2002–03St. Georges.4
2003–04St. Johns1.4
2003–04Suva1.2
2003–04Valletta1.9
2003–04Victoria.7
2003–04Wellington1.2
2003–04Windhoek.6
2003–04Yaounde1.5

 
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Embassy name£ million
2003–04Abidjan2.9
2003–04Abu Dhabi1.4
2003–04Addis Ababa4.8
2003–04Algiers1.3
2003–04Almaty1.6
2003–04Amman2.9
2003–04Ankara4.9
2003–04Antanarivo.7
2002–03Ascuncion.5
2003–04Ashgabat1.3
2003–04Asmara.4
2003–04Athens6.4
2003–04Baghdad5.6
2003–04Bahrain1.4
2003–04Baku2.4
2003–04Bangkok2.3
2003–04Beijing11.4
2003–04Beirut3.3
2003–04Belgrade4.6
2003–04Berlin11.3
2003–04Berne3.5
2003–04Bishkek.2
2002–03Bogota3.7
2003–04Brasilia4.3
2003–04Bratislava1.2
2003–04Brussels6.1
2003–04Bucharest1.7
2003–04Budapest4.0
2003–04Buenos Aires3.8
2003–04Cairo3.8
2002–03Caracas2.9
2003–04Chisinau1.0
2003–04Conakry.1
2003–04Copenhagen3.7
2003–04Dakar1.2
2003–04Damascus2.2
2003–04Dili.0
2003–04Doha1.4
2003–04Dubai1.0
2003–04Dublin3.9
2003–04Dushanbe1.3
2002–03Guatemala City1.6
2003–04Hanoi2.0
2002–03Havana1.8
2003–04Helsinki3.6
2003–04Holy See.3
2003–04Jakarta5.7
2002–03Kathmandu1.3
2003–04Khartoum2.6
2002–03Kiev3.1
2003–04Kigali1.0
2003–04Kinshasa1.4
2003–04Kuwait.8
2003–04LaPaz1.0
2002–03Lima3.2
2003–04Lisbon4.2
2003–04Ljubljana1.5
2003–04Luanda2.2
2003–04Luxembourg1.1
2003–04Madrid9.5
2003–04Manila1.5
2003–04Maseru.9
2002–03Mexico City4.1
2003–04Minsk.7
2003–04Monrovia.4
2002–03Montevideo1.3
2003–04Moscow10.5
2003–04Muscat2.0
2003–04Oslo3.1
2002–03Panama City.9
2003–04Paris17.8
2003–04Phnom Penh1.1
2003–04Prague2.7
2003–04Pyongyang1.1
2002–03Quito1.3
2003–04Rabat1.9
2003–04Rangoon1.3
2003–04Reykjavik.7
2003–04Riga1.4
2003–04Riyadh2.9
2003–04Rome8.7
2002–03San Jose.6
2002–03San Salvador.8
2003–04Sana'A2.0
2002–03Santiago2.7
2002–03Santo Domingo.6
2003–04Sarajevo3.1
2003–04Seoul5.6
2003–04Skopje3.3
2003–04Sofia1.6
2003–04Stockholm3.8
2003–04Tallinn1.3
2003–04Tashkent1.8
2003–04Tehran2.5
2003–04Tel Aviv4.1
2003–04The Hague4.5
2003–04Tokyo17.0
2003–04Tripoli2.3
2003–04Tunis1.6
2003–04Tunis1.6
2003–04Ulaanbaatar.6
2003–04Vienna5.4
2003–04Vientiane.1
2003–04Vilnius1.2
2003–04Warsaw4.8
2003–04Washington9.7
2003–04Yerevan1.1
2003–04Zagreb2.4








 
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Green Ministers

Mr. Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Green Ministers his Department has had since 1997. [197674]

Mr. Rammell: There have been four Green Ministers in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 1997.

Iraq

Glenda Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to his reply of 26 October 2004, Official Report, column 1177W, reference 191798, if he will list the UN sanctions that had collapsed by August 2001, referred to in paragraph 3, page 3 of ISG Regime Finance and Procurement. [195198]

Mr. Rammell: The former Iraqi regime worked hard to bring about an end to sanctions, and claims about their failure were part of the former regime's strategy to influence UN member states. The former Iraqi regime undoubtedly undermined sanctions, including by corrupting the Oil for Food Programme to generate illicit revenue, and by smuggling goods to and from Iraq. Such practices are being investigated by the independent inquiry appointed by the UN Secretary General in April 2004.

The UN Security Council lifted sanctions against Iraq under resolution 1483 of 22 May 2003, with the exception of the arms embargo and certain financial restrictions against individuals and entities of the former Iraqi regime.

Israel/Palestine

Richard Burden: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment has been made by the European Union of the cost of damage to EU-funded projects in the Palestinian Territories resulting from Israeli military action. [196575]

Mr. Rammell: The European Commission (EC) maintain an audit of damage to EC and member state financed projects as a result of Israeli security measures during the intifada. The value of damaged projects funded by the European Union (either bilaterally by member states or by the EC) is €26.5 million.

We have made representations to the Israeli authorities at the highest level expressing our grave concern at the damage sustained by Palestinian civilians and institutions as a result of Israel Defence Forces activity. The EU has also made representations to the Israeli authorities and has reserved the right to demand compensation from Israel for damage to EU financed projects.

Lisbon Agenda

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with Mr. Wim Kok in connection with his progress report on the Lisbon agenda. [197475]

Mr. MacShane: My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary saw Mr. Kok at the European Council on 4 November, where Mr. Kok's progress report on the Lisbon agenda was discussed. My right hon. Friends the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Work
 
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and Pensions attended the Tripartite Social Summit earlier that day, where the report was also discussed. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister met with Mr. Kok on 26 August and at the European Council on 4–5 November.

John Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress towards the Lisbon agenda. [197477]

Mr. MacShane: I refer my hon. Friend to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's Statement to the House on 8 November 2004, Official Report, column 570, following Wim Kok's presentation to the European Council on progress on the Lisbon agenda. The Government set out their priorities for European economic reform in their progress report in February and their vision for a more focussed, results-oriented Lisbon process in a paper submitted to Mr. Kok and EU partners in June. Copies are available in the Library of the House.

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