Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the cost of work undertaken by his Department relating to nuclear disarmament was in 2013-14; and if he will make it his policy separately to detail in his Department's Annual Report and Accounts expenditure and activity relating to nuclear disarmament.

Work on nuclear disarmament is led by the Counter-Proliferation Department, which has approximately thirty members of staff. We also use our global network of embassies and missions on a daily basis to take forward this work. We do not record time spent on disarmament specifically, therefore we will not be reporting separately on the costs of this work in the Annual Reports and Accounts. More detailed information on our progress on nuclear disarmament was most recently reported in our NPT PrepCom National Report, which was deposited in the House on 29 April 2014 (reference DEP2014-0656).