Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Witnesses Rupert Skilbeck (Director at REDRESS), and Dr Tatyana Eatwell (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Witnesses Hans-Jakob Schindler (Senior Director at Counter Extremism Project (CEP))

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Work UK-Libya relations (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Fathi Bashagha (Prime Minister appointed by the Libyan House of Representatives and Former Minister of Interior at Ministry of Internal Affairs of Libya)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific

Witnesses Bill Emmott (Writer and Consultant and Former Editor-in-Chief at The Economist), and Robert Ward (Japan Chair at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS))

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific

Witnesses Dr Alessio Patalano (Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia at King's College London), Dr Jamie Collier (Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Mandiant), and Mihoko Matsubara (Chief Cybersecurity Strategist at NTT Corporation)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Kumar Iyer (Director General, Economics, Science and Technology at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Witnesses Lord Hammond of Runnymede

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Witnesses Jeremy Hunt

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations

Witnesses Rt Hon Alistair Burt (Minister of State at the Department for International Development from June 2017 to March 2019 and Former Minister of State for the Middle East at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Government policy on Afghanistan

Witnesses Sir Stephen Lovegrove (National Security Adviser at Cabinet Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The Wagner Group and beyond: proxy Private Military Companies

Witnesses Dr Sorcha MacLeod (Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, and Chair at UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries), Christo Grozev (Executive Director and ex-Russia investigator at Bellingcat), and Dr Sean McFate (Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, and Professor at National Defense University)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Government policy on Afghanistan

Witnesses Sir Philip Barton KCMG OBE (Permanent Under-Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and Nigel Casey MVO (Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Use of strategic lawsuits against public participation

Witnesses Catherine Belton (Author of 'Putin's People'), Arabella Pike (Head of Publishing at William Collins), Susan Coughtrie (Project Director, Unsafe for Scrutiny at Foreign Policy Centre), and Tom Burgis (Investigative Journalist at Financial Times)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Justine Walker (Global Head of Global Sanctions, Compliance and Risk at Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists), Tom Keatinge (Director at RUSI Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies), Timothy Ash (EM Senior Sovereign Strategist, Emerging Markets at BlueBay), and Maria Shagina (Visiting Senior Fellow at Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Thomas Drew CMG (Director General, Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry Tech and the future of UK foreign policy

Witnesses Amanda Milling, Professor Charlotte Watts (Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and Chris Jones (Director, Delivery and Analysis at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Dr Atis Pabriks (Minister for Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia), Gabrielius Landsbergis (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lithuania), and Eva-Maria Liimets (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Estonia)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses HE Vadym Prystaiko (Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK), and Captain Dmytro Donskoi (Ukrainian Defence and Air Attaché)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Fiona Hill (Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution), Shashank Joshi (Defence Editor at The Economist), and Anders Aslund (Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council)

Committees Foreign Affairs Committee