Letter to the Rt Hon David Miliband MP,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office from the Chairman of the Committee
TOP RISKS
REGISTER
At its last meeting, the Foreign Affairs Committee
discussed the Prime Minister's announcement that the national
register of risks will be made public later this year. In July
2007 the Committee asked the FCO for a copy of the Department's
Top Risks Register. This request was refused on the basis that
the Register was "a confidential internal document to inform
the Board of management on resource and operational decisions".[9]
Instead Sir Peter Ricketts simply listed the top six operational
risks and the top six strategic risks in his quarterly management
letter to the Committee.[10]
The Committee has asked me to write to you to
ask whether, in light of the Prime Minister's decision to make
Government-wide information on risks publicly available, you will
reconsider the FCO's decision to withhold the Top Risks Register
from the Committee. I look forward to your response.
27 March 2008
9 Foreign Affairs Committee, First Report of Session
2007-08, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2006-07,
HC 50, Ev 115. Back
10
Ibid, Ev 121. Back
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