Special Report
1. The Foreign Affairs Committee published its Sixth
Report of Session 2007-08, Proposed appointment of Rt Hon Jack
McConnell MSP as High Commissioner to Malawi, on 24 June 2008,
as House of Commons Paper HC 507. The Government's response to
this Report was supplied to us in the form of two letters: one
from the Foreign Secretary, dated 24 July, and one from the Permanent
Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, dated
13 October. These letters are appended below, together with a
subsequent exchange of correspondence between the Committee and
the Permanent Under-Secretary on this subject.
2. We also print, as a further appendix, a letter
from the Chairman of the Committee to the Foreign Secretary, dated
13 May (this is referred to in Mr Miliband's letter of 24 July).
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