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Dated May 2014. Available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications. Government response to HC 86-I, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215069603) Web ISBN=9780215069603
Dated June 2014. A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government. Government response to HC 86-I, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215070586)
Dated September 2013. Response to the Committee's 1st report, HC 87-I, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215058799)
Dated May 2014. Government response to HC 86-I, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215069603). A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government.
The cuts imposed on the FCO since 2010 have been severe and have gone beyond just trimming fat: capacity now appears to be being damaged. If further cuts are imposed, the UK's diplomatic imprint and influence would probably reduce, and the Government would need to roll back some of its foreign policy objectives. The FCO's budget is a tiny element of Government expenditure, but the FCO makes disproportionate contribution to policy making at the highest level, including decisions on whether to commit to military action. The next Government needs to protect future FCO budgets under the next Spending Review.
Dated September 2014. Government response to the Committee's 3rd report, HC 547, session 2014-15 (ISBN 9780215073501). A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government.
In this report, published on the last day that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has funding responsibility for the World Service, the Foreign Affairs Committee says that it has "clear differences" with the BBC on new arrangements for governance of the World Service. It specifically has reservations about the move to licence fee funding for the World Service and what that would mean for the World Service's budget, and its ability to be heard amongst all the other competing voices within the BBC. The Committee regrets that the World Service now has no direct voice on either the BBC Executive Board or the Management Board, and it says that it "remains to be seen" whether representation of the World Service's interests at Board level by the Director of News and Current Affairs will indeed safeguard the distinct nature of the World Service. The Committee welcomes the assurance given in evidence by James Harding, the BBC's Director of News and Current Affairs, that the £245 million budget for the World Service in 2014-15 will be used as a baseline for the following two years. But what is really needed is longer-term protection at institutional level, and we continue to be concerned about the absence of a direct voice for the World Service on either the BBC's Executive Board or the Management Board