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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. You can follow the Committee on X (formerly Twitter) using @CommonsForeign.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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Eighth Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific
Inquiry Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific
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HC 172
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Fourth Special Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific – Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2022–23
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HC 630
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Fourth Special Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific – Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2022–23
Inquiry Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific
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First Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience
Inquiry Critical minerals
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HC 371
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Third Special Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report
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Correspondence

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Letter from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the FCDO relating to the Afghanistan Lessons Learned Report, dated 02/05/2024
Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
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Correspondence from the Foreign Secretary relating to British nationals assisted in Gaza, dated 16/05/24
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Letter to the Foreign Secretary and the Education Secretary relating to support for students in the Overseas Territories, dated 23/05/24
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Oral evidence transcripts

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28 November 2023
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses Stig Jarle Hansen (Norwegian political scientist, historian and author and Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Jonathan Guiffard (Senior Fellow, Defence and Africa at Institute Montaigne), and Dr Nicholas Westcott (Professor of Practice at Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS)
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Oral Evidence
28 November 2023
Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy
Witnesses John Deverell CBE (Independent Consultant at First Call Partners, and former senior military officer and Director of Defence Diplomacy at Ministry of Defence)
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14 May 2024
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Witnesses Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Minister of State (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, United Nations and the Commonwealth) at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Stephen Hickey (Director for Middle East and North Africa in the FCDO)
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Written evidence

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The White Helmets (MENA0080)
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
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Reprieve (MUL0021)
Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system
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Mr James Day (MUL0001)
Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system
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Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
35 published
Formal Minutes
Formal minutes produced for committee meetings.
19 published
Attendance statistics
Statistics for the attendance at committee meetings.
14 published
Estimate memoranda
Explanatory memoranda that accompany Government Estimates.
42 published
Older evidence
Written evidence and oral evidence transcripts transferred from our archive website.
19 published
Other documents
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6 published
Pre-2010 publications
Committee documents published online before May 2010.

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  • Email: fac@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 4050 (general enquiries) | 020 7219 2996 or facmedia@parliament.uk (media enquiries)
  • Address: Foreign Affairs Committee | House of Commons | London | SW1A 0AA