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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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Tenth Report - Countries at crossroads: UK engagement in Central Asia
Inquiry The UK’s engagement in Central Asia
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Seventh Report - Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed
Inquiry The Wagner Group and beyond: proxy Private Military Companies
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Seventh Special Report - Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed – Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report
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HC 1914
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Seventh Special Report - Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed – Government Response to the Committee’s Seventh Report
Inquiry The Wagner Group and beyond: proxy Private Military Companies
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HC 1914
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Oral evidence transcripts

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24 October 2023
Work Artificial Intelligence and diplomacy (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Professor Michael Ambühl (Former Swiss State Secretary for Foreign Affairs; Mathematician), Professor Corneliu Bjola (Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies at Department of International Development, University of Oxford), Pia Hüsch (Research Analyst for Cyber, Technology and National Security at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), and Professor Nick Boström (Professor and Director at Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
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17 October 2023
Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Minister of State (Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and United Nations) at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), and Andrew McCoubrey (Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)
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Oral Evidence
17 October 2023
Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Andrew Kidd (Former Head of UKAid Programme at British Embassy Kabul, Director at Kent Refugee Action Network, and Representative at UK-Afghanistan Diplomatic and Development Alliance), Fawzia Koofi (Former Deputy Speaker at Afghan Parliament), and Nicola Kelly (Freelance journalist)
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Written evidence

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Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
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Laure-Hélène Piron (Director at The Policy Practice, on behalf of the UK-Afghanistan Diplomacy and Development Alliance), Joseph Seaton (Founder at At Risk Teachers), Andrew Kidd, Daniel Pimlott, and Sarah Hearn (AFU0005)
Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
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Work Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
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Other publications

Government Responses
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35 published
Correspondence
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517 published
Formal Minutes
Formal minutes produced for committee meetings.
16 published
Attendance statistics
Statistics for the attendance at committee meetings.
12 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