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The National Security Secretariat provides coordination on security and intelligence issues of strategic importance across government. Separately, the Joint Intelligence Organisation produces independent all-source assessments on issues of national security and foreign policy importance. By supporting the work of the...
The Intelligence Services Commissioner (ISC) provides independent judicial oversight of the conduct of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Security Service (MI5), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
The Intelligence Analysis profession provides understanding, insight and foresight to operational and policy decision makers through the rigorous examination and articulation of all-source intelligence assessment. Intelligence Analysis is part of the Civil Service .
The Joint Intelligence Organisation leads on intelligence assessment and development of the UK intelligence community’s analytical capability, supporting the work of the Joint Intelligence Committee and National Security Council.
Members of the Committee are to bring to the attention of their ministers and departments, as appropriate, assessments that appear to require operational, planning or policy action. The Chairman is specifically charged with ensuring that the Committee's monitoring and warning...
The composition of the UK’s intelligence machinery.
Part of Strategic Command, Defence Intelligence (DI) empowers decision makers in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and UK government by providing intelligence products and assessments.
The Secret Intelligence Service, often known as MI6, collects Britain’s foreign intelligence. It provides the government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and economic well-being of the country. SIS works with the Foreign, Commonwealth...
The Intelligence and Security Committee was established by the Intelligence Service Act 1994. It is formed of 9 Parliamentarians drawn from both the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and appointed by the Prime Minister to examine the...
This series brings together annual reports from the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC).
This series brings together ad hoc reports from the Intelligence and Security Committee.
This collection contains immigration staff guidance on immigration intelligence.
Joint Doctrine Note 1/23 explores the fundamentals of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
The Office for Artificial Intelligence is now part of the AI Policy Directorate in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Content from the Office can be found on DSIT’s GOV.UK pages.
This report covers the issue of diversity and inclusion in each of the seven organisations overseen by the Intelligence and Security Committee.
The move is part of a major package of measures to tighten defences against alleged malign activity by Russia across the UK and Europe.
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