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Departmental Freedom of Information

Mrs. Laing: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many staff in his Department were employed on the management of freedom of information requests submitted to his Department in each year since 2005; and how much his Department spent on the management of such requests in each such year. [299143]

Chris Bryant: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has 10 staff in its Information Rights Team who are responsible for managing Freedom of Information (FOI) and subject access requests under the FOI and Data Protection Acts respectively. However, a large number of staff in the FCO play a role in answering FOI requests and to find out exactly how many would incur disproportionate cost.

A report prepared for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) by Frontier Economics Ltd., in October 2006, entitled "Independent Review of the impact of the Freedom of Information Act" estimated a figure of £254 for a central Government body to deal with an initial FOI request. Based on this figure, the FCO spent an estimated £334,010 on initial FOI requests in 2005, £261,620 in 2006, £260,604 in 2007, £258,826 in 2008 and £232,410 to end October in 2009.

The report is available on the MoJ website at:


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Departmental Marketing

Sammy Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department has spent on advertising and publicity in each of the last five years. [294971]

Chris Bryant: I refer the hon. Member to the reply on advertising given by my noble Friend Baroness Kinnock today (HL5509).

In addition to that reply, consular directorate's publicity team spent the following from their publications budget:

£

2004-05

n/a

2005-06

531,000

2006-07

(1)750,000

2007-08

683,000

2008-09

611,000

(1) Including World cup expense

This expenditure includes the cost of digital media and producing and distributing consular leaflets and booklets.

In 2008-09 our communications directorate spent £859,485 on publicity (strategic campaigns). Figures prior to this are not available, nor are figures for spend at our posts abroad.

Departmental Official Cars

Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the cost of provision of Government cars to special advisers in his Department was in the last 12 months. [299588]

Chris Bryant: No special advisers are provided with an allocated Government car and driver. As with all civil servants, special advisers may use an official car or taxi in properly defined circumstances. Details of such use is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Secondment

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants of each grade have been seconded from his Department to (a) the private sector, (b) non-governmental organisations and (c) other organisations in each year since April 2003; and what the (i) dates and (ii) locations of each secondment were. [298711]

Chris Bryant [holding answer 9 November 2009]: The following figures list Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) staff on outward loan or secondment since 2007. The FCO does not have centrally-held records of these appointments before 2007.

These figures do not include FCO staff working for UK Trade and Investment or UK Border Agency (with whom the FCO has joint recruitment arrangements), FCO staff working for other organisations while on special unpaid leave or those working on an informal basis.


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Grade Organisation From To

A2

DIUS

2007

2008

A2

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

A2

DIUS

2008

2008

A2

BERR

2008

2010

A2

Home Office

2009

2011

B3

Home Office

2008

2009

B3

DFID

2009

2009

B3

MOD

2007

2008

B3

DIUS

2008

2009

B3

DFID

2007

2009

B3

Cabinet Office

2007

2008

B3

Cabinet Office

2006

2009

B3

Cabinet Office

2005

2008

B3

Clarence House

2007

2010

B3

Home Office

2008

2010

B3

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

B3

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

B3

DCMS

2008

2011

B3

Cabinet Office

2008

2010

B3

Home Office

2008

2010

C4

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

C4

Home Office

2008

2008

C4

DFID

2008

2009

C4

DFID

2007

2008

C4

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

C4

Cabinet Office

2007

2009

C4

DIUS

2006

2008

C4

ONS

2007

2008

C4

CPS

2007

2009

C4

Cabinet Office

2007

2009

C4

Cabinet Office

2005

2008

C4

BIA

2008

2008

C4

Scottish Executive

2006

2009

C4

Cabinet Office

2006

2008

C4

DFID

2006

2008

C4

DFID

2006

2009

C4

Manchester Airport Plc

2009

2010

C4

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

C4

DFID

2008

2010

C5

British Expertise

2005

2009

C5

Corp of London

2007

2009

C5

DIUS

2008

2008

C5

Cabinet Office

2007

2009

C5

DFID

2009

2009

C5

Cabinet Office

2007

2009

C5

Scottish Development International

2006

2009

C5

Learning and Skills Council

2008

2010

C5

Advantage West Midlands

2008

2011

C5

UK Supreme Court

2009

2009

C5

Shell

2009

2011

C5

MOD

2008

2011

D6

DFT

2005

2010

D6

Cabinet Office

2008

2008

D6

HMT

2004

2009

D6

Think London

2007

2008

D6

Home Office

2008

2010

D6

Cabinet Office

2008

2008

D6

City of London

2007

2008

D6

DFID

2005

2009

D6

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

D6

DFID

2005

2008

D6

Cabinet Office

2007

2009

D6

No 10

2007

2009

D6

Home Office

2007

2009

D6

Southampton University

2005

2007

D6

Home Office

2007

2008

D6

City Inn

2008

2010

D6

Cabinet Office

2008

2010

D6

DFID

2008

2011

D6

HMT

2009

2011

D6

BIA

2008

2010

D6

Intellectual Property Office

2008

2010

D6

Australian Dept of Climate Change

2009

2011

D6

Wilton Park Executive

2007

2010

D6

HMT

2009

2012

D6

Africa Matters Ltd

2005

2010

D6

BERR

2008

2011

D6

HMT

2009

2012

D6

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

D6

Cabinet Office

2009

2010

D6

Cabinet Office

2005

2012

D6

HMT

2009

2010

D6

DCLG

2008

2010

D6

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

D6

DFID

2009

2011

D7

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

D7

Middle East Association

2006

2009

D7

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

D7

Home Office

2007

2008

D7

Buckingham Palace

2007

2010

D7

DIUS

2008

2009

D7

Cabinet Office

2008

2011

D7

SEEDA

2008

2011

D7

Home Office

2008

2010

D7

Home Office

2008

2010

D7

Third Generation Environmentalism Ltd.

2008

2010

D7

Metropolitan Police

2008

2010

D7

J P Morgan

2007

2010

D7

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

D7

Cabinet Office

2009

2010

D7

National School of Government

2008

2011

D7

Imperial College

2008

2010

D7

Cabinet Office

2009

2011

D7

DCMS

2009

2012

SMS 1

AIG

2008

2008

SMS 1

3i Group plc

2008

2009

SMS 1

Eurasia Group

2009

2009

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2006

2009

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2007

2008

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

SMS 1

Ashridge Business School

2007

2008

SMS 1

DEFRA

2007

2009

SMS 1

3i Group PLC

2008

2009

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2006

2008

SMS 1

Clarence House

2006

2010

SMS 1

Treasury Solicitor's Office

2008

2011

SMS 1

MOJ

2008

2010

SMS 1

Home Office

2008

2011

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2007

2010

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2008

2010

SMS 1

IPO

2008

2010

SMS 1

DFID

2009

2011

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2008

2010

SMS 1

Energy Technologies Institute

2009

2010

SMS 1

DWP

2008

2010

SMS 1

DEFRA

2007

2009

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2008

2010

SMS 1

Cabinet Office

2007

2008

SMS 1

Treasury Solicitors

2008

2010

SMS 2

Scottish Executive

2006

2010

SMS 2

HMT

2009

2011

SMS 2

Ofcom

2008

2009

SMS 2

Cabinet Office

2003

2009

SMS 2

Cabinet Office

2008

2009

SMS 2

Home Office

2005

2009

SMS 2

Rolls Royce PLC

2008

2009

SMS 2

MOJ

2008

2013

SMS 2

BAE Systems

2009

2010

SMS 3

Cabinet Office

2007

2010

Grades g uide :
A2 = HCS AA
B3 = HCS EO
C4 = HCS HEO
C5 = HCS SEO
D6 = HCS Grade 7
D7 = HCS Grade 6
SMS1 = HCS Grade 5
SMS2 = HCS Grade 3
SMS3 = HCS Grade 2

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