12 February 2001. Thanks to JA.
Royal United Services Institute &
Security Intelligence Study
Group
Conference, Thursday, March 15 2001
Venue: RUSI, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
The Oversight of Security and Intelligence
| 09.30 | Registration/Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Welcome (Director, RUSI; Convenor, SISG) | |
| 10.15 | Keynote address (Tom King MP): 'Oversight and the I&SC: the view from within.' | |
| 10.45 | Jack Straw MP, Home Secretary: 'Oversight: the view from Government.' | |
| 11.15 | Stephen Lander, Director General, Security Service: 'Oversight: the view from (one of) the agencies.' | |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 | Panel One: Oversight and the machinery of government - what have been the impact of the various developments since 1989? Where did the idea of the I&SC as a 'committee of parliamentarians' come from, what has been its impact on the pre-existing Whitehall intelligence structure adn the three main agencies (their policy, expenditure and administration)? How do UK arrangements compare with 'Washminister' equivalents? Is the Security Commission redundant? | |
| 14.30 |
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Tea |
| 14.45 | Panel Two: Oversight, Parliament and Public - what has been the relationship between Parliament and the new structures of oversight? Should the I&SC be a Select Committee, how has the I&SC dealt with the media, how do latter perceive the former? Operating from within the 'barrier of secrecy', have the Commissioners, Tribunals and the I&SC succeeded in increasing the sum of Parliamentary and public awareness of security intelligence issues? | |
| 1615 | Concluding Remarks: Whither oversight in the UK? | |
| 1630 | Close |
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