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Government Communication Network

The Government Communication Network (GCN) is the British government's central public relations organisation servicing most government departments in the United Kingdom. At present, there are around 4,000 communicators registered with the GCN website.Cabinet Office, "Government Communication Network", http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government%5Fcommunication/gcn/index.asp 
The GCN is the new name for the Government Information and Communication Service which was dissolved following the Phillis Report in 2004.Cabinet Office, "New Communications Network for Government", http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/newsroom/news_releases/2005/050120_govcomm.asp?ID=57 The Report was supposed to investigate the Blair administration's spin machine and to herald an end to spin. In fact the result has been that spin has been entrenched, old restraints on private sector spin techniques have been abolished and government has been opened up to private sector PR consultancies.
The GCN became the Government Communication Service following an announcement in late 2013.Cabinet Office and The Rt Hon Lord Maude of Horsham New central government communication service to save money and raise standards: Plans to improve standards and evaluate effectiveness of government communication were unveiled today. Published 15 October 2013.
Following the priorities set out in the Communications plan for 2013 to 2014, the 11 point plan for reform of the GICS to create the GCN includes:
:creating a new Government Communication Service
:mandatory evaluation to track effectiveness and justify value for money
:aligning departmental communications strategies with government priorities
:revising and improving communications spending controls
:improving governance through a new Government Communication Board
:creating group communication structures to align work of departments and their major arms-length bodies
:improving cross-government internal communications
:improving regional communication services
:enhancing existing communications hubs to improve joint working between departments
:providing additional central resource to support departments
:integrating social media and digital channels within all communications functions, including the press office 
==External links==
*Internet Archive comms.gov.uk
*Internet Archive gcn.civilservice.gov.uk
==References==
 
Category:British Propaganda
Category:Propaganda
Government Communication Service

The Government Communication Service became the new name of the Government Communication Network following an announcement in late 2013 by Angus Maude.Cabinet Office and The Rt Hon Lord Maude of Horsham New central government communication service to save money and raise standards: Plans to improve standards and evaluate effectiveness of government communication were unveiled today. Published 15 October 2013.
Following the priorities set out in the Communications plan for 2013 to 2014, the 11 point plan for reform of the GCN to create the GCS includes:
:creating a new Government Communication Service
:mandatory evaluation to track effectiveness and justify value for money
:aligning departmental communications strategies with government priorities
:revising and improving communications spending controls
:improving governance through a new Government Communication Board
:creating group communication structures to align work of departments and their major arms-length bodies
:improving cross-government internal communications
:improving regional communication services
:enhancing existing communications hubs to improve joint working between departments
:providing additional central resource to support departments
:integrating social media and digital channels within all communications functions, including the press office 
==People==
*Alex Aiken
==External links==
*Internet Archive gcs.civilservice.gov.uk
==See also==
===GCHQ===
*National Cyber Security Centre
===DCMS===
*Counter Disinformation Cell (AKA Disinformation & Misinformation Unit) - DCMS is the lead department.
===Cabinet Office===
*Government Communication Service,
*Rapid Response Unit
*National Security Communications Team
===MoD===
*77th Brigade
*Specialist Group Military Intelligence
===FCO/FCDO===
*Counter-Daesh Coalition Communications Cell
*Counter Disinformation and Media Development
*Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
*Government Information Cell
==References==
 
Category:British Propaganda
Category:Propaganda
Government Communications Planning Directorate

Government Communications Planning Directorate is a Whitehall code name for the Security Service/MI5.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/06/mi5-involvement-in-drone-project-revealed-in-paperwork-slip-up
According to the Guardian in 2021:
:For an agency devoted to secrecy and surveillance, it is an embarrassing slip-up. An inadvertent disclosure on a university document has revealed that MI5 is partly behind what was meant to be a covert bug and drone research project. Ostensibly, Imperial College’s research was to create a quadcopter system for charging remote agricultural sensors – but MI5’s participation has emerged because somebody involved stated it was the secret second funder of the programme. Paperwork produced by Imperial initially cited the apparently obscure Government Communications Planning Directorate (GCPD) as a backer – a moniker used in Whitehall as a codename for MI5.
:Alerted to the slip-up by sister agency MI6, efforts were made to ask Imperial to discreetly remove the reference, but not before it had been drawn to the Guardian’s attention. Since then, the link to MI5 has subsequently been confirmed.
==Recipients of GCPD funding==
*University of Bath Items where funder is Government Communications Planning Directorate
==Notes==
Government Office for Science

The Government Office for Science is part of the Department for Business Innovation & Skills.
==People==
*Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the GOS
*John Beddington, Former Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the GOS (Jan 2008-March 2013)
==Affiliations==
*Science Media Centre funded by the GOS in 2008 and 2009.
==Contact==
:Web: Government Office for Science
==Notes==
Category:Science Category:Science Media Centre
Government of Bahrain

==PR and lobbying firms==
n 2012 written evidence from Index on Censorship to House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, report summarised some of the political influence Bahrain had bought itself in the UK:
:Bahrain is another authoritarian nation that is a significant spender on PR and lobbyists. It is estimated that since March 2011, Bahrain has paid £15 million to firms such as Bell Pottinger, Big Tent Communications, Gardant Communications, G3 Good Global Governance, Hill and Knowlton, M&C Saatchi and YouGovStone. 68
: It also spends considerable sums on taking British politicians over to Bahrain on “fact-finding” missions of questionable merit. A March 2011 survey by the Guardian found British parliamentarians took 18 trips paid for by the Bahrain Government, at a total cost of £42,700. (69)
:Research by John Horne, Director of Community, EA Worldview found that in March 2009, The Gulf Policy Forum organised a trip to Bahrain sponsored by the Government. The delegation included Lord Lothain (Michael Ancram), Alan Duncan MP (then Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Minister) and Keith Simpson MP (then Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister). Two months later, opposition leader David Cameron registered gifts from King Hamad of cuff-links and a fountain pen.(70) 
:In August, Liam Fox MP took a three-day trip, also paid for by the Bahrain Government, “to meet with the King of Bahrain as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence”. (71) 
: In October 2010, Gardant Communications organised a trip to Bahrain, paid for by the Government, for three members of the UK-Bahrain All-Party Parliamentary Committee: Chair Conor Burns MP, Priti Patel MP and Thomas Docherty MP.(72) This list is by no means comprehensive. House of Commons
Political and Constitutional ReformCommittee, Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists, Written Evidence, Ordered to be published 2 and 23 February, 1 and 8 March, 19 April and 26 April and 10 May 2012 
==Advisers==
*Former British Army chief of defence staff Lord David Richards has acted as a consultant since he retired in 2013.
==Lobbying firms retained==
*Bell Pottinger (London office under administration as of September 2017, BPME however has continued to operate)
Category:Bahrain
Government of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia was the world’s second largest arms importer in the years In 2013–17 according to research published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in March 2018. Its arms imports increased by 225 per cent compared with the 2008–12 period.
==Lobbying firms==
*Bell Pottinger (until 2017)
*Qorvis
==Notes==
Category:Saudi Arabia
Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands

==PR and lobbying firms==
*In 2008 the Turks and Caicos Islands Tourist Board hired its first UK PR agency Riva Publicity to promote tourism and attract investment to the islands following a competitive pitch. The Mayfair-based agency's brief was to target the travel, fashion, trade, financial and property press. Caribbean sun, PR Week UK, 16 May 08, accessed 20 September 2011 
The registered lobbyist in the US for the Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2009 was J Watson and co.Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, registered 2007, accessed March 2009Jeffrey Watson is a US lobbyist and former aide to President Bill Clinton.JWC website, accessed March 2009
It was reported in February 2009 that Watson had hired a jet to the islands' premier, Michael Misick. Misick and his deputy, Floyd Hall, were alleged to have helped parcel out prime strips of land on the Islands to developers keen to turn the overseas territory, some 600 miles off Florida, into a luxury tourist destination. Both men deny any wrongdoing.Islanders blame UK for 'stolen land', Guardian, 1 February 2009
==Contacts==
Turks and Caicos Islands Government Office
42 Westminster Palace Gardens, 1-7 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RR
==Notes==
Category: Financial sector lobbyingCategory:Tax avoidance
Government of the United Arab Emirates

==Arms importer==
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the second largest importer of weapons in the Middle East and has been listed as the world’s third largest importer between 2012 and 2016.
The UAE owns the London ExCel Centre, which every two years hosts one of the world's biggest arms fair called Defence Systems and Equipment International‎‎ (DSEI).
==Lobbying firms retained==
===UK===
*Bell Pottinger Communications circa Sept-Nov 2013 (APPC register listed client as Prime Minister's Office of the United Arab Emirates)
*Quiller Consultants (Former)
===USA===
*DLA Piper (2015-16)
==Political donations and overseas trips for UK politicians==
*Lord Kilclooney
*Priti Patel
==Notes==
Category:United Arab EmiratesCategory:Lobbying
Grace McGlynn

Grace McGlynn is Director of Integrated Decision Management (IDM). She is also an Associate of the Sustainable Environment Policy Programme at the University of Manchester.
==Background==
McGlynn is the ex-head of Public Affairs and Corporate Responsibility at BNFL, who "led the campaign team to justify the operation of Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant on the Sellafield site". McGlynn also headed the production of BNFL's "first award winning CSR report" and was the "sponsor and coordinator of the pioneering BNFL National Stakeholder Dialogue process". McGlynn has advised CoRWM and the Department of Trade and Industry on devising engagement and communication plans. She is also an Associate of the Sustainable Environment Policy Programme, University of Manchester.Integrated Decision Management, "Grace McGlynn", http://www.idmsolutions.co.uk/content.php?pageID=8
==References==
McGlynn, Grace
McGlynn, Grace
Graeme Davies

Sir Graeme Davies is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. He was Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1995 to 2003. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from 1991 until 1995 having been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1986 to 1991. He was Professor of Metallurgy in the University of Sheffield. He was educated in the School of Engineering of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has held Visiting Professorships in New Zealand, Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Israel and India. 
He is now the Chair of the Higher Education Policy Institute and a patron of the Scottish North American Business Council 
==References==
# University of London, "Vice-Chancellor", http://www.lon.ac.uk/vice_chancellor.html
# Higher Education Policy Institute, "About HEPI", http://www.hepi.ac.uk/about.asp
# Scottish North American Business Council, "Board", http://www.snabc.org/board.php
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks

Graeme Gibbon-Brooks is Chief Executive of Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service.Dryad Maritime Intelligence About Us, accessed 4 March 2010
Gibbon-Brooks is 'a former Mine Clearance Diver and Above Water Warfare Officer in the Royal Navy.' Prior to leaving the Navy he 'spent over a year researching, for the service, the nature, behaviour and challenges posed by the piratical, terrorist and Human Trafficking threat.' The Dryad Maritime website notes that he has 'served extensively in the Middle East and East Africa' and that he regularly offers 'specialist subject matter expertise to UK and international media organisations.'Dryad Maritime Intelligence About Us, accessed 4 March 2010
==Background==
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks MD was Lt Cdr in the Royal Navy from 1992 — 1997 (5 years ). Amongst his 'specialities' he lists 'all aspects of Diving including Mine Clearance Diving' as well as 'Attack Swimming... underwater bomb disposal... Anti Air warfare planning and execution, especially Anti Ship Missile Defence and Rules of engagement. Anti surface warfare planning and execution, specialising particularly in asymmetric warfare.'LinkedIn Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, accessed 4 March 2010
In his LinkedIn profile he notes that he has been the director of Dryad Maritime Intelligence Service since July 2007.LinkedIn Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, accessed 4 March 2010
==Affiliations==
==Resources==
*Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York AFFIDAVIT OF GRAEME GIBBON-BROOKS. In the Case of Golden Gate Yacht Club Vs Societe Nautique de Geneve and club Nautico Espanol de Vela, 602440/07, (Properties of pdf file: File Created 2 October 2009.)
*Gibbon-Brooks on Inside Story - Piracy on the high seas Al Jazeera, 18 November 2008.
==Notes==
Graeme Wilson

Graeme Wilson served as UK government's political press secretary under former UK prime minister David Cameron, from August 2013 to June 2016. Angela Haggerty Downing St appoints The Sun's deputy political editor, Graeme Wilson, as press officer The Drum, 27 August 2013, accessed 15 October 2014 His appointment was intended to improve Cameron's relationship with the press. George Eaton David Cameron appoints the Sun's deputy political editor as his press secretary New Statesmen, 27 August 2013, accessed 10 October 2014 
Wilson previously worked as the deputy political editor of The Sun. James Forsyth, Graeme Wilson of The Sun to be new Downing Street press secretary", The Spectator, 27 August 2013, accessed 17 September 2014. Wilson joined the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch in 2007. He has covered politics for other newspapers since 1997. The Sun's Graeme Wilson takes 10 Downing Street press secretary job PR Week, 27 August 2013, accessed 15 October 2014 
==Revolving Door==
After leaving No. 10, he was hired by the financial lobbying firm Tulchan Communications as a partner, to work in the firm’s policy advisory practice. David Singleton, David Cameron’s key lieutenants line up for lobbying jobs, Total Politics, 29 November 2016. Accessed 6 December 2016. Wilson sought the advice of the advisory committee on business appointments (ACOBA) on taking up the role in November 2016, which was later approved on condition he would not make use of any of his contacts in government or privileged information to benefit the company, and would not lobby government personally on its behalf. Summary of business appointments applications - Graeme Wilson, GOV.uk, accessed 7 December 2016. 
In the role, Wilson offers 'strategic advice to Tulchan Communications’ clients on how to handle press and media issues they may face' and on 'how the government might handle issues affecting clients'. A senior partner at Tulchan said on the appointment: 
:'Graeme's expertise and experience, particularly his many years in political journalism, will enhance our advisory capability and accelerate our continued growth in this increasingly important area'. 
Wilson commented: 
:'I am very pleased to be joining Tulchan, which has a well-earned reputation as a market-leading advisor on strategic corporate and financial communications. I'm looking forward to bringing my experience to Tulchan to ensure that it continues to offer the best possible advice to its clients.' John Harrington, Tulchan hires ex-David Cameron press secretary Graeme Wilson; David Shriver departs agency, PR Week, 29 November 2016, accessed 7 December 2016. 
==Notes and References==
Wilson, Graeme Wilson, GraemeWilson, Graeme
Graham Allen

Graham Allen has been the Labour MP for Nottingham North since 1987. He has been the chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee since 2010.Graham Allen, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 June 2013.
==Affiliations==
*Honorary Associate National Secular Society National Secular Society Our Honorary Associates. Accessed 20 September 2015.
*All-Party Parliamentary Group on Water Safety and Drowning Prevention, member 'Water and Safety and Drowning Prevention Register',parliament.uk, accessed 11 November 2015
==Contact==
====Parliamentary====
*Address: House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
*Telephone: 020 7219 5065
*Email: allengw@parliament.uk\
====Constituency====
*Telephone: 0115 975 2377
==Notes==
Allen, GrahamAllen, Graham Allen, Graham
Graham Allison

:Graham T. Allison is Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1977 to 1989 Allison served as Dean of the Kennedy School. In the first term of the Clinton administration, Allison served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, where he coordinated Department of Defense strategy and policy toward Russia, Ukraine, and the other states of the former Soviet Union. His publication Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis was recently released in an updated and revised second edition and ranks among the best-sellers in political science with more than 350,000 copies in print. Other publications include Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material,Realizing Human Rights: From Inspiration to Impact, and Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Graham_Allison
==Affiliations==
*The National Interest
==Notes==
Allison Graham
Graham Barnfield

Graham Barnfield is an academic associated with the libertarian anti-environmental LM network through his past membership of the defunct Revolutionary Communist Party, "Internet Dating", The Loneliest Jukebox blogsite, accessed 1 Jan 2011 writing for Living Marxism/LM]], writing for Offence, his role as Education Officer with and fundraising for WORLDwrite, his contributions to building promoters Audacity and his articles for Culture Wars and Spiked. "Graham Barnfield articles", Spiked website, accessed 1 Jan 2011 Barnfield studied for a BA (Hons), English with Media Studies at the University of Sussex (1989-1992) and undertook a PhD in cultural studies at Sheffield Hallam University (1992 – 1996)LinkedIn Graham Barnfield
He was born 5 November 1969 in Leicester. He received a BA (Hons) in English with Media Studies from the University of Sussex in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Sheffield Hallam University in 1996. He teaches journalism at the University of East London.
==Resources, Publications, Notes==
===Publications===
*Graham Barnfield, 'Sonic the scapegoat', Living Marxism, No. 57 - July 1993. 
*Graham Barnfield, 'Spaghetti westerns', Living Marxism, No. 59 - September 1993.
*Graham Barnfield, 'Devil in a Blue Dress', Living Marxism, No. 87 - February 1996.
*Graham Barnfield, Andrew Calcutt, Penny Lewis and Jan Macvarish, 'Thou shalt not take the name Dunblane in vain', LM 97, February 1997.
*Graham Barnfield, 'The dope sheet that duped the world', LM 102, p. 34, July/August 1997.
*Graham Barnfield, 'Gonzo journo', Living Marxism, No. 114 - October 1998. 
===Resources===
:Profile Graham Barnfield, University of East London
:Twitter: Graham Barnfield
:Weblog The Loneliest Jukebox
:Wikipedia: Graham Barnfield
===Notes===
Barnfield, Graham
Graham Barr

Graham Barr was in charge of governmental relations at BP for 27 years. He left BP in 2002 and served as chairman of Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres (BPSF), the international branch of the Bell Pottinger communications agency founded by Tim Bell. In 2005 he joined the consultancy Global Strategy Ltd.
Intelligence Online reports:
:Now that Ahmed Chalabi is back in good odor in Washington, his lobbyists in the United Kingdom are paving the way for his return to London. Chalabi's prime adviser over the past five years, Claude Hankes Drielsma, has set up a consultancy, Global Strategy Ltd. in London. His two partners in the firm are Graham Barr, who was in charge of governmental relations at BP for 27 years, and Peter Anthony Inge, former chief of the defense staff in the United Kingdom. Incorporated in May of this year, Global Strategy is still dormant but it nonetheless seals an alliance between three men with experience in the Middle East and particularly in Iraq. A former merchant banker, Drielsma was head of the British branch of the German consultancy Roland Berger until last year. Along with Chalabi he had pressed actively in recent years for an inquiry into the United Nations oil for food program, buttonholing the American media and Congress on the issue...
:For his part, Barr, who left BP in 2002, serves as chairman of Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres (BPSF), the international branch of the Bell Pottinger communications agency founded by Tim Bell, former spokesman for Margaret Thatcher. BPSF has worked in Iraq since 2003. The firm was the main PR adviser to the interim Iraqi government and managed the campaign to prepare for elections in January of this year. Since then it has continued to advise the new Iraqi government. A British Trio with Iraq Connections, Intelligence Online, December 9, 2005 
Barr has now left Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres, now Bell Pottinger Geopolitical, and is a founding partner of global consultancy Etoile Partners Ltd. Graham Barr Global leadership foundation, accessed 3 November 2014 
==Education==
*University of Cape Town
*Harvard Business School
==Notes==
Barr, Graham
Barr, Graham