Committees

Foreign Affairs Committee

Commons Select Committee

The Foreign Affairs Committee examines the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and other bodies associated with the Foreign Office and within the Committee's remit, including the British Council.

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These pages only show information for this committee from the start of 2020 onwards. Earlier information can be found on the previous version of the UK Parliament website.

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8 current inquiries

Inquiries allow committees to consider oral and written evidence on a particular topic. They usually result in the publication of a report.

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The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations
Opened 1 April 2022
The Wagner Group and beyond: proxy Private Military Companies
Written evidence:
Accepting
Deadline 27 September 2022
Opened 30 March 2022
Responding to illicit and emerging finance
Written evidence:
Accepting
Deadline 27 September 2022
Report:
Published
On 30 June 2022
Govt. response:
Due by
On 30 August 2022
Opened 1 February 2022
The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response
Opened 24 January 2022
Government policy on Afghanistan
Report:
Published
On 24 May 2022
Govt. response:
Published
On 29 July 2022
Opened 1 September 2021
Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific
Opened 22 July 2021
Tech and the future of UK foreign policy
Report:
Published
On 8 July 2022
Govt. response:
Due by
On 8 September 2022
Opened 8 March 2021
Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Opened 16 March 2020

Non-inquiry work

Non-inquiry sessions
Non-inquiry sessions are brief packages of work that will not necessarily result in a report. They may be used to revisit previous inquiry topics or take evidence on a topical matter.

Latest news

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Foreign Affairs Committee publishes Government response to Afghanistan report
Government responds to Committee's report 'Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan'
29 July 2022
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Committee Corridor: State hostage-taking - can Parliament help?
Richard Ratcliffe, long time campaigner for the release of his wife Nazanin from prison in Iran, reflects on whether the family’s case ‘moved the dial fundamentally’ for state hostages
21 July 2022
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State hostage taking experts to give evidence to Foreign Affairs Committee
Foreign Affairs Committee hears from non-governmental organisations and international human rights lawyer
15 July 2022

Latest publications

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First report - Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan
Inquiry Government policy on Afghanistan
Committees Foreign Affairs Committee
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Response to this report
Second Special Report - Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report
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Special Report
Second Special Report - Missing in action: UK leadership and the withdrawal from Afghanistan: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report
Inquiry Government policy on Afghanistan
Committees Foreign Affairs Committee
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Special Report
Letter to the Foreign Secretary relating to the Government response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2021-22, dated 12/07/2022
Inquiry Implementing the Integrated Review in Nigeria
Committees Foreign Affairs Committee
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Correspondence

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