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min answer › date of answer	2015-07-21
answer › answering member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
uin	7669
max answer › question first answered	2015-07-22T14:59:28.217Z

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16/07/2015

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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Diplomatic Service

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many Consular (a) hubs and (b) spokes there are in each region; and what criteria his Department has set for deciding those numbers.

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Newcastle upon Tyne Central

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Chi Onwurah

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7669

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is ministerial correction

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21/07/2015

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We do not operate a hub and spoke network as such. In line with the FCO’s Consular Strategy 2013-2016, we focus resources on those who need us most and are most at risk. We route calls to all our consular posts overseas to three contact centres in Malaga, Hong Kong and Ottawa. Urgent cases, and those that require local support, are passed to posts across eight consular regions.The number and location of our consular posts is based on the number of British nationals travelling and living overseas, and the number and complexity of consular cases. The number of posts in each region is as follows:Eastern Europe & Central North-Eastern Asia 25 Europe North 26 Europe South 36 Latin America 18 Middle East, North Africa & South Asia 37 North America & Caribbean 23 South East Asia Pacific 23 Sub-Saharan Africa 37In support of these posts there are 217 Honorary Consuls operating in 86 countries.

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Welwyn Hatfield

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Grant Shapps

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21/07/2015 12:59:18

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