---

10 Mar 2009 : Column 219W—continued

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Hague: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs with reference to the answer of 24 November 2008, Official Report, column 2049W, on exchange rates, which posts overseas reported a decline in the purchasing power of their local budget; and what the value in UK sterling was of the total reported decline. [243945]

David Miliband: As of November 2008 a total of 168 posts reported a decline in the purchasing power of their local budget. The total value of this reported decline was £44,176,397 (£27.9 million in April 2008 and a further £16.3 million as of October 2008).

Set out in the following table are the posts that reported a decline and the value of this decline.

10 Mar 2009 : Column 220W

10 Mar 2009 : Column 221W

10 Mar 2009 : Column 222W

Annex A
£000
Post	Total overseas price movement impact as of October 2008
Abu Dhabi	252.8
Abuja	751.2
Accra	98.0
Addis Ababa	83.4
Algiers	310.2
Amman	405.7
Amsterdam	119.4
Anguilla	12.4
Ankara	501.7
Ashgabat	52.0
Asmara	11.6
Astana	146.2
Athens	546.6
Atlanta	70.5
Auckland	15.3
Baghdad	601.5
Bahrain	61.2
Baku	304.8
Bandar Seri Begawan	55.9
Bangkok	241.0
Banjul	66.9
Basra	251.0
Beijing	940.5
Beirut	148.5
Belgrade	443.6
Belmopan	92.7
Berlin	751.9
Berne	400.3
Bogota	297.1
Bordeaux	15.1
Boston	77.2
Brasilia	564.2
Bratislava	149.5
Bridgetown	135.3
Brisbane	39.3
Brussels	1,481.4
Bucharest	170.0
Budapest	375.5
Buenos Aires	534.3
Cairo	297.0
Canberra	444.1
Cape Town	50.6
Caracas	426.7
Castries	12.7
Chennai	17.0
Chicago	105.5
Chisinau	94.6
Chongqing	79.2
Colombo	389.9
Copenhagen	40.4
Dakar	76.5
Damascus	66.6
Dar Es Salaam	111.9
Dhaka	263.2
Doha	220.2
Dubai	467.3
Dublin	416.9
Dushanbe	63.3
Dusseldorf	505.5
Ekaterinburg	61.4
Freetown	82.0
Gaborone	21.8
Geneva	557.3
Georgetown	61.2
Grand Cayman	15.3
Grand Turk	26.1
Guangzhou	338.1
Guatemala City	101.1
Hanoi	152.6
Havana	83.9
Helsinki	293.4
Ho Chi Minh City	68.5
Hong Kong	375.9
Honiara	16.0
Houston	100.6
Islamabad	176.1
Istanbul	474.2
Jakarta	189.0
Jerusalem	312.8
Johannesburg	51.3
Kabul	818.2
Kampala	110.2
Karachi	6.4
Kathmandu	10.2
Khartoum	303.6
Kiev	390.7
Kigali	53.3
Kingston	361.7
Kinshasa	211.2
Kolkata	8.2
Kuala Lumpur	165.5
Kuwait	348.0
La Paz	92.4
Lagos	1,008.9
Lille	16.7
Lilongwe	47.2
Lima	175.4
Lisbon	283.9
Ljubljana	121.0
Los Angeles	151.1
Luanda	72.3
Lusaka	204.2
Luxembourg	79.1
Lyon	13.3
Madrid	1,202.1
Manila	265.1
Maputo	131.8
Marseille	0.4
Melbourne	70.2
Mexico City	348.2
Minsk	57.1
Montevideo	205.6
Montreal	17.1
Moscow	314.3
Mumbai	24.8
Munich	131.6
Muscat	196.2
Nairobi	576.8
New Delhi	158.6
New York BCG	272.1
New York UKMIS	59.6
Nicosia	347.4
Osaka	202.5
Oslo	157.4
Ottawa	279.4
Panama City	59.6
Paris	1,615.9
Perth	32.2
Phnom Penh	136.4
Plymouth	13.2
Port Louis	92.5
Port Moresby	69.1
Port of Spain	172.8
Prague	453.9
Pretoria	169.1
Pristina	141.9
Quito	66.9
Rabat	278.1
Rangoon	173.3
Riga	145.1
Rio de Janeiro	276.4
Riyadh	543.4
Rome	1,135.6
San Francisco	89.8
San Jose	62.5
Sanaa	192.7
Santiago	199.0
Santo Domingo	29.9
Sao Paulo	357.2
Sarajevo	166.4
Shanghai	369.6
Singapore	339.5
Skopje	250.2
Sofia	266.3
St. Georges	3.4
St. Johns	4.1
St. Petersburg	217.0
Stockholm	281.4
Strasbourg	3.5
Suva	51.0
Sydney	126.5
Taipei	150.1
Tallinn	145.5
Tashkent	127.4
Tbilisi	203.1
Tehran	643.8
Tel Aviv	523.4
The Hague	331.5
Tirana	64.1
Tokyo	923.7
Toronto	108.5
Tortola	15.3
Tripoli	302.5
Tunis	125.0
Ulaanbaatar	33.5
Valletta	113.9
Vancouver	39.5
Victoria	7.5
Vienna	568.5
Vilnius	108.0
Warsaw	615.9
Washington	617.9
Wellington	49.6
Yaounde	97.5
Yerevan	107.6
Zagreb	213.8
Total OPM Uplift	44,176.4

---