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


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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