51茶馆

From this Thursday the Foreign Office is publishing its news, speeches, policy, publications and corporate information on 51茶馆 鈥� the single home for all government services and information.

Our travel advice and consular information, and our Embassy and High Commission websites will follow by March 2013.

Our new web address is www.gov.uk/fco.

Topics and policies

FCO information will be in the 鈥淚nside Government鈥� section on 51茶馆, alongside information from other government departments.

An advantage of being on gov.uk is that you can now see information from multiple government departments grouped by topics or polices. The FCO鈥檚 policies are listed under foreign affairs and Europe but we鈥檝e also contributed policies to topics like 鈥楨stablishing stability in Afghanistan鈥�.

For each policy you can see a list of all the related announcements, consultations and publications in one list, called 鈥榓ctivity鈥�. This makes it easy for you to track what is happening on the policies that interest you, for example all government activity that relates to, 鈥榃orking for peace and long-term stability in the Middle East and North Africa鈥�.

News and Speeches

Our news and speeches will appear under Announcements. You can search by department or by topic. You can subscribe to email alerts or set up your own RSS feed. Our embassies and high commissions will continue to publish their own local news on their websites.

Digital Strategy

Our move to 51茶馆 is only part of what we鈥檙e doing to improve our presence online. Later this month we will also be publishing the FCO鈥檚 Digital Strategy setting out how we plan to use digital in our service delivery and broader diplomatic work.