Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 20 February (HL5413), how many UK-based staff there were at UK diplomatic posts in (1) Asia, (2) the Americas, and (3) Africa, (a) before the staff savings made to fund the creation of 50 new posts in Europe, and (b) after those staff savings.

Total numbers of Foreign and Commonwealth Office UK-Based and Local staff at posts in Africa, Americas and Asia, on 31 January 2018, are listed below. Reprioritisation of resource from these regions to the Europe network will involve changes to 31.6 of these jobs. The answer to Parliamentary Question HL5876 provides further detail on the type of changes being made to front-line jobs in these regions.