Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2007-08 - Foreign Affairs Committee Contents


Letter from the Head, Parliamentary Relations Team to the Committee Specialist

FCO STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT TEAM

  Thank you for your letter of 19 December requesting further information in connection with the FCO 2007-08 Annual Report. I am writing in reply to your question 2 which asked for further details on the work of the FCO Stakeholder Engagement Team.

  During 2007-2008, the FCO's Stakeholder Engagement Team moved away from undertaking traditional outreach activities itself to providing advice and support to emerging stakeholder liaison teams across the FCO. A dedicated network of "stakeholder managers" was established Office-wide to develop and maximise relationships with the FCO's key stakeholders, focusing on both geographical regions and particular interest groups (such as NGOs, business, faith communities and academics).

  This support and advice included publication of a comprehensive internal guide to best practice (attached for information) on stakeholder engagement; developing stakeholder engagement training courses for FCO staff; advice on mainstreaming stakeholder objectives into all departmental/directorate Business Plans; and facilitating increased interaction (for example, through round table discussions) between senior FCO officials/Ministers and stakeholder groups. Areas of particularly effective dialogue and co-ordination with—and outreach to—stakeholders include the international climate change agenda, global arms trade negotiations and counter-radicalisation/counter-terrorism.

  More recently, the Stakeholder Engagement Team has, after wide consultation, identified a group of priority stakeholders judged key to the delivery of our eight Departmental Strategic Objectives. Appropriate individual leads across the Office have been tasked with promoting and co-ordinating an enhanced relationship with these "top tier" stakeholders. We are also currently developing an electronic "customer relationship tracking system" to enhance our oversight of the broad range of FCO stakeholder relations."

  I trust this answers your question regarding the Stakeholder Engagement Team.

MINISTERIAL VISITS

  The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has visited the following countries/cities in an official capacity since his appointment in June 2007.

18 July 2007 Paris and Berlin
22-23 July 2007Brussels
24-27 July 2007Afghanistan and Pakistan
28-30 July 2007Washington
4-7 September 2007Romania, Turkey, Italy and Spain
7-8 September 2007Portugal
26-29 September 2007New York, USA
14-15 October 2007Luxembourg
18-19 October 2007Lisbon, Portugal
22-23 October 2007New York and Washington, USA
15 November 2007Bruges
17-20 November 2007Israel, OPTs and Egypt
21-23 November 2007Uganda
26-27 November 2007Annapolis, USA
6-7 December 2007Brussels
10 December 2007Brussels
13-14 December 2007Brussels
15-18 December 2007Iraq
19 January 2008Ljubljana
22 January 2008Berlin
24-26 January 2008Davos, Switzerland
27-28 January 2008Brussels
6-11 February 2008Afghanistan and Bangladesh
18 February 2008Brussels
23-29 February 2008China
6 March 2008Brussels
10 March 2008Brussels
13-14 March 2008Brussels
17-19 March 2008Stockholm, Helsinki and Copenhagen
28-29 March 2008Ljubljana
31 March 2008Paris
3-4 April 2008Bucharest
17 April 2008Berlin
19-24 April 2008Pakistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
13-16 May 2008Turkey
18-23 May 2008New York, Washington and California
28-30 May 2008Stockholm and Oslo
8-10 June 2008Lebanon, Israel and OPTs
12 June 2008Paris
16 June 2008Luxembourg
19-20 June 2008Brussels
25-28 June 2008Japan
5-10 July 2008South Africa and Sudan
13-14 July 2008France
22 July 2008Brussels
13 August 2008Brussels
19-20 August 2008Brussels and Georgia
27 August 2008Ukraine
1 September 2008Brussels
4-6 September 2008Paris and Avignon
11 September 2008Dublin
15 September 2008Brussels
24-26 September 2008New York, USA
8 October 2008Brussels
13 October 2008Luxembourg
15-16 October 2008Brussels
21-23 October 2008Slovenia and Slovakia
24-26 October 2008China
3-4 November 2008Marseille, France
4-5 November 2008Serbia and Kosovo
10 November 2008Brussels and Bosnia & Herzegovina
16-19 November 2008Israel, OPTs, Syria & Lebanon
23-27 November 2008United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistan
2-5 December 2008Brussels, Norway, Finland
8 December 2008Brussels
11-12 December 2008Brussels
14-16 December 2008USA
  
  
Foreign and Commonwealth Ministers have visited the following countries in an official capacity since their appointments in June 2007.
  
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR EUROPE
Jim Murphy MP
  
3-4 September 2007Belgium, The Netherlands and France
15 October 2007Luxembourg
5-6 November 2007Slovenia
14-15 November 2007Germany and France
29 November 2007Spain
10 March 2008Belgium
18-20 March 2008Bosnia & Herzegovina
31 March-1 April 2008Turkey
23-24 April 2008Spain and Gibraltar
29 April 2008Luxembourg
6-8 May 2008Azerbaijan and Georgia
13-14 May 2008Czech Republic
20-21 May 2008Italy
26 May 2008Belgium
16 June 2008Luxembourg
30 June-1 July 2008Germany
4-11 July 2008USA
16-18 September 2008Hungary, Poland and France
  
  
Caroline Flint MP
  
  
8-10 October 2008Cyprus and Greece
27-29 October 2008France and Czech Republic
5-7 November 2008Bulgaria and Croatia
10 November 2008Belgium
12-13 November 2008Belgium
  
  
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AFRICA, ASIA AND THE UN
The Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown
  
  
26-30 August 2007China
6-7 September 2007France
9-14 September 2007Sudan
21 September-2 October 2007 New York, USA
14-19 October 2007Afghanistan
20-27 November 2007Egypt and Uganda
3 December 2007 Germany
16-19 January 2008Japan
27 January-2 February 2008 Kenya and Ethiopia
13-17 February 2008New York, USA
20 February 2008France
4-5 March 2008Switzerland
11-14 March 2008Mongolia
14-19 April 2008Beijing, China and New York, USA
2 May 2008Geneva, Switzerland
13-18 May 2008Thailand, Singapore and Burma
4-5 June 2008Paris, France
24-25 June 2008Geneva, Switzerland and Norway
29 June-1 July 2008Egypt
13-19 July 2008Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal
1-4 September 2008Zambia
8-11 September 2008Nigeria
19-26 September 2008New York, USA
3-5 October 2008Austria
13-18 October 2008Bangladesh and India
6-7 November 2008Kenya
14-16 November 2008Cairo, Eqypt
16-18 November 2008DRC
19-20 November 2008Rwanda
10-11 December 2008South Africa
  
  
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
Dr Kim Howells MP
  
  
22-26 July 2007Jordan, Libya and Egypt
30 August-7 September 2007 USA
11-19 September 2007Brazil, Peru and US
22-25 October 2007Nigeria and Ghana
2-3 November 2007Turkey
5-6 November 2007Portugal
29 November-2 December 2007 Colombia
17-20 December 2007Lebanon
8-15 January 2008USA and Jamaica
7-11 January 2008Iraq
31 January 2008Canada
22-25 February 2008Saudi Arabia and Oman
6-14 March 2008Brazil and Chile
28-31 March 2008Bahrain and Qatar
6-9 April 2008South Africa
21-3 April 2008Morocco
2-6 May 2008Yemen
10-17 May 2008Bolivia and Peru
15-19 June 2008Ethiopia and Eritrea
23-24 June 2008Germany
26-28 June 2008USA
3-9 July 2008Canada and USA
13-25 September 2008USA
  
  
Bill Rammell MP
  
  
13-17 October 2008Kuwait and Iraq
27-29 October 2008Jordan
12-14 November 2008USA
  
  
PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE
Meg Munn MP
  
  
8-17 September 2007Mexico, Panama and Jamaica
14-23 October 2007New Zealand and Tonga
18-3 November 2007Singapore
9-15 December 2007Dominican Republic and Cayman Islands
2-7 January 2008Falkland Islands
27 February-2 March 2008 Thailand
27-30 March 2008Bermuda
13-20 April 2008Belize, Guatemala and Barbados
30 April-11 May 2008Philippines and Australia
4-10 June 2008Cambodia and Malaysia
29 June-1 July 2008Greece
17-22 August 2008Singapore, New Zealand and Niue
17-20 September 2008Spain
28 September-5 October 2008 Mexico and Costa Rica
  
  
Gillian Merron MP
  
  
1-7 November 2008Jamaica and Trinidad
  
5 January 2009






 
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