HC Deb 30 November 1999 vol 340 cc165-6W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the title of research studies, audits and surveys(a) being undertaken and (b) commissioned by his Department for completion within (i) 1999 and (ii) 2000, stating in each case whether and when the results are due to be published. [99674]

Mr. Hain

The information requested is not centrally recorded and covers such a wide range of activity that a comprehensive list could be compiled only at disproportionate cost. Research studies commissioned and published in 1999 or intended for publication in 2000 include:

1999

History Notes

  • The Zinoviev Letter
  • Women in Diplomacy

Focus International Papers

  • Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Progress Towards Democracy
  • Progress Towards Gender Equality
  • Iraq: Sanctions and the "Oil for Food" Agreement
  • Enlargement of the European Union
  • Burma: 10 Years of Repression
  • The International Criminal Court, Questions and Answers
  • Population and Development
  • NATO's Fiftieth Anniversary Summit
  • Gibraltar: Partnership for Prosperity
  • Kosovo: Chronology, March 1998-March 1999
  • The Cologne Debt Initiative
  • Britain and China: A Growing Partnership
  • The Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
  • Money Laundering
  • East Timor: A Historical Background
  • Britain's Parliamentary Co-operation with Russia

1998

  • Wilton Park Papers
  • The United Nations in The Twenty-First Century
  • Building Political Stability in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Diplomacy for the Twenty-First Century: 'Re-Crafting The Old Guild'
  • Building Bridges Between Islam and the West
  • Nordic and Baltic Security and Prosperity
  • Challenges to East Asian Security
  • The Search for Peace in the Middle East
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  • Europe after Economic and Monetary Union
  • The Continuing threat of Nuclear Proliferation
  • Protecting the Environment and Sustaining Development towards a Green Millennium
  • Current issues in International Diplomacy and Foreign Policy—Volume I: 1999
  • Volume II: 2000

2000

  • Documents on British Policy Overseas
  • Series III, Volume III.

In addition, unclassified versions of some of the papers prepared by the FCO's Research Analysts in recent years will be placed on the FCO's website next year.

Audits and surveys in 1999 include the regular series of internal audits conducted by the FCO's Internal Audit department in accordance with Treasury requirements. Reports of internal audits are sent to the National Audit Office, but the details are not routinely published because to do so could harm the effective management and operations of the public service.