Letter to the Clerk of the Committee from
the Parliamentary Relations and Devolution Team, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office
The Committee will, as you know, be hearing
oral evidence from the PUS on 26 October, as part of its inquiry
into the FCO Annual Report 2004-05.
As in previous years, the Committee wishes to
raise a number of questions in writing, to which it desires answers
before the oral evidence session. I therefore enclose a list of
questions, to which it would be most helpful to receive answers
on or before Monday 3 October. If it should be the case that by
then the answers to most questions are ready, but those to a few
are not, we would prefer to receive the bulk of the answers on
time and the remainder as soon as possible thereafter.
The Committee will certainly wish to publish
the responses to all the questions. If, for good reasons, it is
necessary to classify or to request confidentiality on any answer,
we would therefore prefer that answer to be sent as a separate
paper.
If you require any clarification of the questions
or wish to discuss any aspect of the inquiry, I will be pleased
to do what I can to assist.
Steve Priestley
Clerk of the Committee
25 August 2005
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