by the Joint Intelligence Organisation which includes an assessments staff. The assessment staff is made up of experienced senior analysts drawn from across government and the military and conducts all-source analysis on subjects of interest to the committee. JIC papers draw input from across the intelligence and security agencies and other related bodies. Membership comprises senior officials in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence and United Kingdom Armed Forces, Home Office, Department for International Development, HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office. The JIC is subject to oversight by the Intelligence and Security Committee. It is supported by the Joint Intelligence Organisation. Role and functions The JIC is responsible for: assessing events and situations relating to external affairs, defence, terrorism, major international criminal activity, scientific, technical and international economic matters and other transnational issues, drawing on secret intelligence, diplomatic reporting and open source material to monitor and give early warning of the development of direct and indirect threats and opportunities in those fields to British interests or policies and to the international community as a whole to keep under review threats to security at home and overseas and to deal with such security problems as may be referred to it to contribute to the formulation of statements of the requirements and priorities for intelligence gathering and other tasks to be conducted by the intelligence agencies to maintain oversight of the intelligence community's analytical capability through the Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis to maintain liaison with Commonwealth and foreign intelligence organisations as appropriate, and to consider the extent to which its product can be made available to them The JIC has three functions: Advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers on intelligence collection and analysis priorities in support of national objectives. Periodically scrutinises the performance of the Agencies in meeting the collection requirements placed upon them. Assuring the professional standards of civilian intelligence analysis staff across the range of intelligence related activities in His Majesty's Government. Intelligence requirements The JIC drafts the annual Requirements and Priorities for collection and analysis, for approval by Ministers. These support the strategic national security objectives of the UK: Protect UK and British territories, and British nationals and property, from a range of threats, including from terrorism and espionage; Protect and promote Britain's defence and foreign policy interests; Protect and promote the UK's economic well-being; and Support the prevention and detection of serious crime. Foreign