Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 20 November 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much it has cost to date to administer the Locally Employed Staff Assistance scheme for Iraqi nationals; and if he will make a statement.
The cost to date of administering the Iraq locally employed staff assistance scheme are as follows:
The cost of administering the scheme at our missions in Iraq is £256,000. The cost of administration at our embassy in Amman is £27,000. These costs include staff and overheads.
Administration costs are also being incurred in London by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DfID), UK Boarders Agency (UKBA) and Ministry of Defence (MOD). FCO has so far incurred £75,000 costs, DfID £15,000 and UKBA £156,000. The costs incurred by MOD are not yet available and will be forwarded in an addendum to this answer.
The Government have also contributed US$80,000 to the UN high commissioner for refugees to enable the recruitment of two additional members of staff to process applications under the scheme.
This gives a total cost (excluding MOD costs) of £529,000 plus US$80,000.
These statistics represent costs to date and do not include the Gateway Resettlement programme which has allocated £12,000,000 over two years to resettle 600 Iraqi former locally employed staff and their dependents. It also excludes the financial assistance package payments of US$2,418,552 made to staff as set out in PQ 227954.
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