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Departmental Telephones
Mr. Breed: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what his policy is on the use of telephones in his Department by members of staff for their personal use relating to (a) domestic calls and (b) international calls; and if he will make a statement; [201113]
(2) what measures he has taken to ensure that telephones in his Department are not used by staff for making unauthorised personal calls to international numbers; [201114]
(3) what estimate he has made of the cost to his Department of unauthorised personal calls made by members of staff to (a) domestic numbers and (b) international numbers in the last year for which figures are available. [201115]
Mr. Rammell: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) policy is that officials are permitted to use official telephones for minimal personal use, and we trust our staff not to abuse that, and local management to ensure it is not abused. The costs of private use of FCO telephone systems can be recovered from staff, but actual recovery of costs is a local management decision based on cost effectiveness. No central records are kept of such recoveries across the FCO and its missions abroad. In many parts of the World, use of the official FCO Telecommunications Network is the only reliable way in which FCO staff can keep in touch with relatives and friends.
Detention (USA)
Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he has taken following the increase in the number of UK citizens being detained by US authorities and subsequently released without charge since 2002. [202084]
Mr. Mullin: Our statistics for the number of British nationals detained and subsequently released by the US authorities do not differentiate between those detained, charged and released and those detained and released without charge. Consequently, we cannot say if there has been an increase in the latter category.
Diplomatic Staff
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many (a) ambassadors and (b) high commissioners he has appointed since 2001; and if he will list them. [200938]
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Mr. Alexander: Since June 2001, the following Heads of Mission have been appointed (146 ambassadors (HMA), 38 high commissioners (HC)):
Basil Eastwood, HMA Switzerland
Emyr Jones Parry, UK Permanent Representative, NATO, Brussels
Anne Pringle, HMA Czech Republic
Sherard Cowper-Coles, HMA Israel
Christopher Prentice, HMA Jordan
Brian Donaldson, HMA Madagascar
Paul Brummell, HMA Turkmenistan
Laurie Bristow, HMA Azerbaijan
Simon Featherstone, HMA Switzerland
Peter Collecott, HMA Brazil
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Judith Macgregor, HMA Slovakia
Bernard Whiteside, HMA Moldova
Anwar Choudhury, HC Bangladesh
Stewart Eldon, HMA Republic of Ireland
John Mitchiner, HC Sierra Leone
Richard Lyne, HMA Solomon Islands
Charles Humfrey, HMA Indonesia
Rosalind Marsden, HMA Afghanistan
Andy Sparkes, HMA Democratic Republic of Congo
Linda Duffield, HMA Czech Republic
Peter Beckingham, HMA Philippines
Howard Parkinson, HC Mozambique
John Everard, HMA Uruguay
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Tony Brenton, HMA Russian Federation
David Gordon-Macleod, HC Papua New Guinea
Ron Nash, HC Trinidad and Tobago
Richard Lewington, HMA Ecuador
Haydon Warren-Gash, HMA Morocco
Sherard Cowper-Coles, HMA Saudi Arabia
Georgina Butler, HMA Costa Rica
Andy Ashcroft, HMA Dominican Republic
lan Cliff, HMA Bosnia & Herzegovina
Warwick Morris, HMA South Korea
Robert Chatterton Dickson, HMA Macedonia
Alasdair MacDermott, HC Namibia
Thorda Abbott-Watt, HMA Armenia
Peter Ricketts, UK Permanent Representative to NATO, Brussels
John Grant, UK Permanent Representative to the EU, Brussels
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John Freeman, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, Vienna
Nick Thorne, UK Permanent Representative to the UN and other International
Emyr Jones Parry, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, New York
David Lyscom, UK Permanent Representative to the OECD, Paris
Stephen Howarth, UK Permanent Representative to Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Colin Munro, Head of UK Delegation to the OSCE, Vienna
Peter Jenkins, Permanent Representative of the UN, Vienna
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