Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's annual spend on consular services in India was in each of the last five years.

The full costs attributed to providing consular services fluctuate from year to year depending on the overall cost to Government of operating the overseas network and how these costs are shared amongst the different Government Departments and FCO services using the platform. The full costs attributed to providing consular services in India for the last five years were: