Foreign Affairs - Second Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 3 February 1999.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
Sierra Leone's recent history: the Committee's
role
The Sandline affair: a political bombshell
The Committee's work
The Legg report
WHAT WAS BRITISH POLICY?
Use of force
Arms embargo
Order in Council
SANDLINE AND MR SPICER
Should Mr Spicer have known the law?
Mr Spicer and FCO officials
Introduction
Mr Spicer and Mr Penfold
19 January meeting
Preventing the future use of the "Oral
Licence Defence"
MR PENFOLD
Problems of evacuation to Conakry
Questions to be answered in respect of Mr
Penfold
Should Mr Penfold have known that arms supplies
were illegal?
Were Mr Penfold's dealings with Sandline
appropriate?
Did Mr Penfold pass on information as he
should have?
Was Mr Penfold operating outside government
policy?
INSIDE THE FCO IN LONDON
Informing Ministers
Briefing Ministers
Errors by senior officials
Dealing with intelligence
material
Enforcing sanctions
Dealings with prosecuting authorities
Dealing with persons under criminal investigation
Dealings with the press
Management practices
PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES
Regulating private military companies
PARLIAMENTARY ASPECTS
OF THE INQUIRY
Access to papers
Departmental inquiries and select committees
Access to intelligence
ASSESSMENT
POSTSCRIPT TO THE REPORT
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ANNEX I
List of acronyms
etc used
ANNEX II
List of persons mentioned
in the Report
ANNEX III
Chain of Command
inside the FCO (October 1997 to May 1998)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING TO
THE REPORT
Proceedings of the Committee Relating
to the Report - (Continued.)
Proceedings of the Committee Relating
to the Report -(Further Continued.)
Proceedings of the Committee Relating
to the Report -(Further Continued.)
Proceedings of the Committee Relating
to the Report -(Further Continued.)
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF MEMORANDA INCLUDED IN THE MINUTES
OF EVIDENCE
LIST OF APPENDICES TO THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
UNPRINTED MEMORANDA
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| Oral evidence referred to in this Report includes evidence taken by the Committee during its inquiry into Public Expenditure Plans of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, published as HC (1997-98) 745-i to 745-v; and evidence taken during its inquiry into Sierra Leone, published as HC (1997-98) 1057-i to 1057-iv and HC (1998-99) 116-i. The subject was initially raised during an evidence session in the Committee's inquiry into Foreign Policy and Human Rights, published as HC (1997-98) 369-vii, and with the Committee's report on that subject, HC (1998-99) 100-II.
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| The complete Minutes of Evidence relating to this inquiry are republished in the second volume of this Report as HC 116-II, together with written memoranda received.
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| Question numbers in the oral evidence (Q numbers) remain the same in HC 116-II as in the previously published versions. Page numbers, however, differ in HC 116-II from those in the previous versions. All footnote references in the Report giving page numbers (eg Evidence, pp.79-82) are thus to HC 116-II and not to the previously published versions.
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