Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many cars owned by his Department there are at the British Embassy in (a) Paris, (b) Nairobi and (c) Riyadh.

(a) The FCO owns 7 vehicles for use at the British Embassy in Paris.

(b) The FCO owns 67 vehicles for use by a number of government departments at the British High Commission in Nairobi. These form a transport pool, used by staff from all departments (including the FCO, DfID and DIT) who have signed up to and paid to use the vehicles. A number of these are technical works vehicles used for the secure transportation of building maintenance equipment and water delivery.

(c) The FCO owns 23 vehicles for use at the British Embassy in Riyadh.