Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa

Witnesses Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Department for International Development

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Air Chief Marshal The Lord Peach GBE KCB DL (Former Chief of the Defence Staff at British Armed Forces), and Nick Childs (Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS))

Work Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses The Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Dr Peter Roberts (Senior Fellow at University of Exeter), and General Sir Nick Carter GCB CBE DSO ADC Gen (Former Chief of the Defence Staff at British Armed Forces)

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Juliana Suess (Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), and Theodora Ogden (Space Policy Analyst at RAND)

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Tim Lawrenson (Associate Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies), Dr Marc DeVore (Senior Lecturer at University of St Andrews), and Air Marshal (retd) Edward Stringer (Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange)

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Dr Ulrike Franke (Senior Policy Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations), and Mr James Black (Assistant Director, Defence and Security at RAND Europe)

Work The Global Combat Air Programme (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Professor Trevor Taylor (Professorial Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute), and Lucia Retter (Research Leader at RAND Europe)

Work The Global Combat Air Programme (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Professor Justin Bronk (Senior Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute), and Tony Osborne (London Bureau Chief at Aviation Week)

Inquiry Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence

Witnesses Professor Malcolm Chalmers (Deputy Director-General at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), and Mr Shashank Joshi (Defence Editor at The Economist)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses Christian Schmidt (High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina at Office of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Work Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia-Azerbaijan relations (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Thomas de Waal (Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe), and Marina Nagai (Caucasus Director at International Alert)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses Air Chief Marshal The Lord Peach GBE KCB DL, Prime Minister's Special Envoy to the Western Balkans, Leo Docherty MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Europe) at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office), and Victoria Billing (FCDO Director Europe at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses Professor Jasna Dragovic-Soso (Professor of International Politics and History at Goldsmiths College, University of London), Professor James Ker-Lindsay (Visiting Professor, LSEE Research on South East Europe at The London School of Economics and Political Science), and Dr Jessie Barton Hronesova (Lecturer in Political Sociology at School of Slavonic and East European Studies)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses The Rt Hon The Baroness Ashton of Upholland LG GCMG (Member at House of Lords)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses Dr Tena Prelec (Research Associate, LSEE-Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE and Assistant Professor at Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe (CAS SEE), University of Rijeka), Maja Raicevic (Executive Director at Women's Rights Centre (Montenegro)), and Christopher Levick (Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia at Westminster Foundation for Democracy)

Inquiry The UK and the Western Balkans

Witnesses Ian Cliff (Former British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-05) and Kosovo (2011-15) at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office), and Sian MacLeod (Former British Ambassador to Serbia (2019-23) at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office)

Inquiry The Arctic

Witnesses James Heappey (Armed Forces Minister at Ministry of Defence)

Inquiry The Arctic

Witnesses Dr Lee Willett (Writer and Analyst at Independent Researcher), and Dr Sidharth Kaushal (Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute)

Inquiry The Arctic

Witnesses Angus Lapsley (Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning at NATO)