Foreign And Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2006 07
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| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2007-11-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215037305 |
This report is the Committee's annual review of how the FCO is managing its resources. This year a key area off interest has been the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review because the Committee think it is one of the tightest in Whitehall and it risks jeopardising some of the FCO's important work. Apart from this the other subjects covered are: measuring performance; operational efficiency; management and leadership; FCO services; diplomatic representation overseas; transparency and openness; public diplomacy; British council; BBC World Service.
| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215526274 |
This report is the Committee's annual review of how the FCO is managing its resources, examining the departmental annual report for 2007-08 (Cm. 7398, ISBN 9780101739825). Chapters cover: new strategic framework; performance measurement; global network; essential services; FCO Services; personnel issues; transparency and openness; financial management; public diplomacy and communication; the British Council; the BBC World Service. The Committee is concerned that the FCO is facing serious financial pressures in this financial year due to the Treasury's withdrawal of its support for the Overseas Pricing Mechanism (OPM) which used to protect departments from the weakening of sterling. There is a risk that the FCO may not be able to meet higher international subscriptions over the next two financial years, causing its performance against Public Service Agreement targets to suffer. The likely increase in the UN Regular Budget and other international subscriptions will push this figure even higher. The FCO should have to shoulder the financial burden from within its already tight budget to pay for subscriptions which also benefit other Government departments. The Committee recommends that additional nondiscretionary costs should properly be met by the Treasury.
| Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215544940 |
The FCO departmental report and resource accounts 2008-09 published as HC 460-I,II (ISBN 9780102961614)
| Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215521934 |
The Human rights annual report 2007 from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office published as Command paper Cm. 7340 (ISBN 9780101734028)
| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2008-01-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215513335 |
Work of the Committee In 2007 : Fourth report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal Minutes
| Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215521477 |
This is the seventh report of the 2007-08 session from the Foreign Affairs Committee (HCP 147-I, ISBN 9780215521477) and focuses on the issue of Overseas Territories. Altogether 45 conclusions and recommendations are set out under the following headings, covering: constitutional relationships; governance; rule of law; human rights; environmental governance; contingent liabilities; sovereignty disputes. Specific recommendations include: that the Committee commends the Government's encouragement of Overseas Territories in reviewing their constitutions and setting out proposals for reform; that Gibraltar's presence on the UN list of non-self-governing territories is an anachronism; that territory governments should be given the opportunity to pass on their opinions of the candidates for Governor before appointments are made; that the FCO should ensure it takes Overseas Territories' interests into account in its relations with the EU; the Committee recommends that the FCO should strongly encourage all Overseas Territories to introduce freedom of information legislation; that the FCO must ensure that judicial decisions in Overseas Territories should not have any interference either from the Governor or the local government; that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender status should be made illegal in all Overseas Territories; the Committee believes the Government has been highly negligent in not carrying out a strategic assessment of Overseas Territories funding requirements for conservation and ecosystem managment; that Governors within Overseas Territories should use reserve powers to deal with irregularities, such as money laundering, in offshore financial services (for a related publication, see HCP 4, session 2007-08 NAO: Managing Risk in Overseas Territories). The Committee states that the Government has acted decisively in some Overseas Territories but in some other cases, has been too hands-off (eg. the corruption allegations on the Turks & Caicos Islands). Also that the choice of Governor for a Territory is crucial. Finally, the Committee deplores any retaliatory measures taken against indivduals who have assisted the Committee. For Volume II, Oral and Written Evidence, see (HCP 147-II, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215521507).
| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2009-08-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780215540836 |
This report examines the Government's record in relation to securing the human rights of British citizens and others overseas and its work in promoting human rights in other countries. The report covers rendition, allegations of UK complicity in torture, transfers of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan and the regulation of private military and security companies. It also provides an examination of the international human rights framework and human rights abuses in individual countries of concern including Burma, China, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe and also in the UK's overseas territories.
| Author | : Geoffrey R. Berridge |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2009-07-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9047429834 |
Since the early twentieth century the resident embassy has been supposed to be living on borrowed time. By means of an exhaustive historical account of the contribution of the British Embassy in Turkey to Britain’s diplomatic relationship with that state, this book shows this to be false. Part A analyses the evolution of the embassy as a working unit up to the First World War: the buildings, diplomats, dragomans, consular network, and communications. Part B examines how, without any radical changes except in its communications, it successfully met the heavy demands made on it in the following century, for example by playing a key role in a multitude of bilateral negotiations and providing cover to secret agents and drugs liaison officers.
| Author | : Robert Self |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-06-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230313531 |
Foreign policy has dominated successive governments' time in office and cast a consistently long shadow over British politics in the period since 1945. Robert Self provides a readable and incisive assessment of the key issues and events from the retreat from empire through the cold war period to Humanitarian Intervention and the debacle in Iraq.
| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2011-02-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780215556370 |
This report focusses on the FCO's financial situation and the implications of the Spending Review 2010 for its work and performance, and that of its associated body, the British Council. The FCO is one of the major departmental 'losers' in the Spending Review. Reductions in spending on the FCO, if they result in shortfalls in skilled personnel and technical support in key countries and regions, can have a serious effect in terms of the UK's relations with foreign countries, out of all proportion to the amounts of money involved, especially in relation to the UK's security and that of its Overseas Territories. Cuts to the core FCO budget of even 10% may have a damaging effect on the Department's ability to promote UK interests overseas. The FCO will also face cuts of 55% to its capital budget. The target of raising £50 million per year through selling existing buildings may be difficult to achieve, and may not secure savings in the long-term. A further reduction in the opportunities for more junior UK-based staff to serve in overseas posts, and a consequent diminishing of experience and morale among FCO employees, could over time have a damaging effect on the quality of British diplomacy and the effectiveness of the FCO. The British Council, facing a 25% cut in spending, should give detailed information on its strategy for implementing the cut, which may well trigger fundamental rethinking of the role and work of the Council.
