Foreign Affairs committee  Since 2008 we've had 9,783 applications to get into the department. I think that's quite telling about how applicants see us and want to get into the department. In 2007 we hired 240 new foreign service officers to help eliminate some of the vacancies we had. Of the 160 we hired,

Foreign Affairs committee  This is part of the strategic review that has been taking place across the government in all departments. Ours was done about two years ago. We have identified, in fact, $87.3 million in funding that has been taken out of the department for 2009-10. These are for such things as

Foreign Affairs committee  That is correct, sir.

Foreign Affairs committee  It is $102 million this year.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't have that figure on hand. It was $130 million from 2001-02 until the present.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's more than it was.

Foreign Affairs committee  This year it's $102 million.

Foreign Affairs committee  The first part is fairly easy to answer. We spent $102 million this fiscal year in Afghanistan. That brings our total from 2001-02 up to $130 million to this present year. Those are the figures.