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Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Hague: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 2 March 2009, Official Report, columns 1239-40W, on departmental public expenditure, what estimate he has made of the additional sum each of his Department’s overseas posts will require in (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10 to maintain the purchasing power of each of their local budgets. [261940]

David Miliband: The information is as follows:

2008-09

As of December 2008, a total of 186 posts required additional funds to maintain the purchasing power of their local budget. The total value of this was £59.20 million.

The following table outlines the posts that required additional funds and the value of the funds required.

2009-10

The amount of additional funds required for each post will depend on the value of sterling against foreign currencies over the course of the year. We estimate that at current exchange rates, an additional £30 million will be needed to maintain purchasing power.

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Post	Total OPM impact as of December 2008 (£000)
Abu Dhabi	395.75
Abuja	1,058.78
Accra	259.86
Addis Ababa	141.39
Algiers	339.34
Amman	593.00
Amsterdam	136.20
Anguilla	47.33
Ankara	401.95
Ashgabat	85.42
Asmara	29.12
Astana	146.23
Athens	631.70
Atlanta	176.66
Auckland	9.45
Baghdad	773.81
Bahrain	120.34
Baku	387.76
Bandar Seri Begawan	85.11
Bangkok	392.90
Banjul	81.62
Basra	368.96
Beijing	1,374.69
Beirut	310.97
Belgrade	453.89
Belmopan	170.75
Berlin	872.36
Berne	483.56
Bogota	375.72
Bordeaux	17.86
Boston	169.48
Brasilia	529.07
Bratislava	165.81
Bridgetown	219.30
Brisbane	26.91
Brussels	1,701.03
Bucharest	182.27
Budapest	316.09
Buenos Aires	624.21
Cairo	456.27
Canberra	300.18
Cape Town	25.50
Caracas	547.06
Castries	26.36
Chennai	65.57
Chicago	230.69
Chisinau	117.68
Chongqing	219.85
Colombo	486.48
Copenhagen	97.27
Dakar	84.86
Damascus	151.03
Dar Es Salaam	151.54
Dhaka	453.41
Doha	333.04
Dubai	737.09
Dublin	480.63
Dushanbe	90.29
Dusseldorf	586.74
Ekaterinburg	72.64
Freetown	120.24
Gaborone	16.64
Geneva	675.60
Georgetown	95.73
Grand Cayman	26.66
Grand Turk	61.32
Guangzhou	490.53
Guatemala City	136.62
Hanoi	216.46
Havana	173.65
Helsinki	337.74
Ho Chi Minh City	100.10
Hong Kong	743.04
Honiara	26.67
Houston	220.27
Islamabad	485.29
Istanbul	395.15
Jakarta	233.47
Jerusalem	361.28
Johannesburg	21.68
Kabul	1,446.03
Kampala	123.73
Karachi	148.22
Kathmandu	32.95
Khartoum	483.97
Kiev	346.55
Kigali	84.09
Kingston	477.20
Kinshasa	318.95
Kolkata	27.01
Kuala Lumpur	283.21
Kuwait	493.12
La Paz	125.01
Lagos	1,376.79
Lille	19.33
Lilongwe	81.43
Lima	253.19
Lisbon	333.44
Ljubljana	136.37
Los Angeles	331.05
Luanda	163.16
Lusaka	184.61
Luxembourg	92.36
Lyon	15.30
Madrid	1,384.83
Manila	406.68
Maputo	199.63
Marseille	0.47
Melbourne	50.05
Mexico City	301.34
Minsk	82.27
Montevideo	229.84
Montreal	16.92
Moscow	590.09
Mumbai	77.72
Munich	152.92
Muscat	328.45
Nairobi	742.07
New Delhi	525.75
New York BCG	594.17
New York UKMIS	647.20
Nicosia	404.10
Osaka	411.22
Oslo	125.11
Ottawa	277.22
Panama City	108.17
Paris	1,881.24
Perth	22.87
Phnom Penh	180.79
Plymouth	60.92
Port Louis	100.45
Port Moresby	95.43
Port of Spain	251.69
Prague	473.18
Pretoria	76.24
Pristina	156.59
Quito	115.63
Rabat	331.98
Rangoon	222.78
Riga	159.62
Rio de Janeiro	259.49
Riyadh	877.42
Rome	1,295.10
San Francisco	196.27
San Jose	97.86
Sanaa	302.14
Santiago	188.77
Santo Domingo	51.52
Sao Paulo	334.88
Sarajevo	182.57
Shanghai	530.04
Singapore	469.54
Skopje	250.24
Sofia	289.02
St. Georges	6.73
St. Johns	11.45
St. Petersburg	259.26
Stockholm	265.15
Strasbourg	8.37
Suva	87.29
Sydney	90.33
Taipei	232.49
Tallinn	158.16
Tashkent	92.14
Tbilisi	221.92
Tehran	773.40
Tel Aviv	577.53
The Hague	384.80
Tirana	76.69
Tokyo	2,055.56
Toronto	107.69
Tortola	36.88
Tripoli	392.85
Tunis	151.92
Ulaanbaatar	46.07
Valletta	131.26
Vancouver	39.23
Vienna	659.49
Vilnius	158.88
Warsaw	539.53
Washington	1,365.97
Wellington	27.92
Yaounde	109.04
Yerevan	125.08
Zagreb	236.49
Total	59,226.09

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