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), whether the proposals being developed to generate £4.2 million of savings from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office budget to fund the creation of 50 new diplomatic posts in Europe includes the sale of any properties in the UK diplomatic network overseas; and if so, in which countries any such property sales are being considered.

We are not planning to sell properties to contribute towards the £4.1 million (revised estimate) that we are reprioritising to fund new jobs in the Europe network