FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Letter to the Chairman of the Committee
from the Permanent Under Secretary of State,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, dated
26 June 2006
In our response last month to the Committee's
report on the FCO's Departmental Report 2004-05 (Cm 6791), we
provided a general overview of the FCO's performance during the
first year of the Freedom of Information Act.
I now attach a report which provides more detail
on how the FCO rose to the challenge. We will provide the Committee
with similar reports on an annual basis and will publish updated
versions periodically on our FOI website. DCA's FOI Annual Report,
published last month, provides a comparative statistical analysis
of the operation of FOI across central government.
Yours sincerely,
Sir Michael Jay KCMG
Permanent Under Secretary of State
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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