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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
HC 172
Report
Response to this report
Fourth Special Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific – Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2022–23
HC 630
Special Report
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
HC 630
Special Report
First Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience
Inquiry Critical minerals
HC 371
Report
Response to this report
Third Special Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report
HC 583
Special Report
Letter to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and to the Minister for Sport, Media, Civil Society and Youth following up on the Culture, Media and Sport, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees' joint oral evidence session on the BBC World Service on Tuesday the 17 December 2024, dated 30/01/2025
Inquiry The future of the BBC World Service
HC 529
Correspondence
Correspondence with the Foreign Secretary relating to hostages held by Hamas, dated 08/01/2025 and 13/12/2024
Inquiry The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Correspondence
Correspondence with the Foreign Secretary relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dated 08/01/2025 and 18/12/2024
Inquiry The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Correspondence

Oral evidence transcripts

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4 February 2025
Inquiry The UK’s sanctions strategy
Witnesses Tom Keatinge (Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), Maya Lester KC (Senior Barrister at Brick Court Chambers), and Freya Page (Director of Global Outreach at Kharon)
Oral Evidence
28 January 2025
Work The situation in Syria (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Richard Barrett CMG OBE (former Director of Counter-terrorism at MI6, and former head of the UN al-Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team at United Nations), Paul Jordan (Head of Responding to Security Crises at European Institute of Peace), and Professor Harmonie Toros (Professor in Politics and International Relations at University of Reading)
Oral Evidence
28 January 2025
Work The situation in Syria (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Dr Lina Khatib (Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House), and Simon Collis (former British Ambassador to Iraq, Syria, Qatar and Saudi Arabia at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
Oral Evidence
Professor Martin Scott (Professor in Media & Development at East Anglia University) (BBC0001)
Inquiry The future of the BBC World Service
The White Helmets (MENA0080)
Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Reprieve (MUL0021)
Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system

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