Panel 2000

From Hansard Answers 31 July 1998:

The advisory group set up by Since 1 May 1997 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has established one advisory group which includes independent members--Panel 2000 set up on 1 April 1998--but no task forces. Panel 2000's remit is:

to produce a strategy to improve the way Britain is seen overseas;

to look at the methods and tools available to do this;

to make sure that the public and private sectors are working together to do this; and

to modernise the way the Foreign and Commonwealth Office communicates with the public.

Membership

'drawn from both the public and private sectors':

• Waheed Alli, Zeinab Bedawi, Martin Bell MP, Baroness Chalker, Dr. Frances D'Souza, David John, Mark Leonard, Lord Levy,
• Ruth Mackenzie,
• Sir Colin Marshall,

Lord Paul, Shahwar Sadeque, Judy Simpson, Martin Sorrell, John Sorrell, Harriet Ware-Austin, Baroness Blackstone, Lord Clinton-Davies, Dr. David Drewry, Mark Fisher MP, Andrew Fisher, Tom Harris, Roger Liddle, Peter Mandelson MP, David Quarmby, Baroness Symons, Sir John Kerr, Sir Michael Jay, Claire Fulton, Priya Guha and Vivien Life.