Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry The FCDO’s role in blocking foreign asset stripping in the UK

Witnesses Professor Jeffrey Henderson (Professor Emeritus of International Development at University of Bristol), and Elisabeth Braw (Senior Research Fellow, Modern Deterrence Project at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI))

Inquiry The UK’s role in strengthening multilateral organisations

Witnesses Hon Tony Abbott AC (28th Prime Minister of Australia)

Inquiry The UK’s role in strengthening multilateral organisations

Witnesses Lord Bowness (Vice-president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Chair of the Sub-Committee on Rules of Procedure and Working Practices, Member of Delegation, Conservative member of the House of Lords), Dr Neil Melvin (Director International Security Studies at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), Mr. Alex T. Johnson (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Helsinki Commission for the 116th Congress), and Hon Tony Abbott AC (28th Prime Minister of Australia)

Inquiry The FCDO and the Integrated Review

Witnesses Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein (former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)), and Juan Manuel Santos (former President of Colombia (2010-18))

Inquiry Coronavirus: FCDO response

Witnesses Nigel Adams MP (Minister of State at Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Simon Manley (Director General, C-19 Directorate at Foreign and Commonwealth Office), and Jennifer Anderson (Director, Consular Services at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry The FCDO and the Integrated Review

Witnesses Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (former President of Liberia (2006-2018))

Inquiry The UK and Iran

Witnesses Kasra Aarabi (Analyst at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change), Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi (Senior Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute), Behnam Ben Taleblu (Senior Fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies), Ellie Geranmayeh (Deputy Director at Middle East and North Africa programme, European Council on Foreign Relations), Charlie Loudon (International Legal Adviser at Redress), Dr Sanam Vakil (Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House), and Dr Anicée Van Engeland (Senior Lecturer in International Security at Cranfield University)

Inquiry FCO-DFID merger

Witnesses Tim Durrant (Associate Director at Institute for Government), and Lord Macpherson of Earl’s Court (former Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury)

Inquiry The FCDO’s role in blocking foreign asset stripping in the UK

Witnesses Dr Ron Black (Former CEO at Imagination Technologies), John Rayfield (Chief Technical Officer at Imagination Technologies), and Ray Bingham (Acting CEO, Co-Founder and Partner, Canyon Bridge at Imagination Technologies)

Inquiry The UK’s role in strengthening multilateral organisations

Witnesses Her Excellency Sylvie-Agnès Bermann (former French Ambassador at China, the UK and Russia), Rt Hon Alistair Burt (Foreign Affairs & Middle East Consultant, Former Minister of State at FCO and DfID), and Ben Emmerson QC (Judge on the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia at Former UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights)

Inquiry The FCDO and the Integrated Review

Witnesses Alexander Downer (former Australian Minister (1996-2007) at Foreign Affairs), Asoke Mukerji (former Indian Ambassador (2013-15) at United Nations), and Marietje Schaake (former Member (2009-2019) at European Parliament)

Inquiry The FCDO and the Integrated Review

Witnesses Samantha Power (former US Ambassador to the United Nations (2013-2017) at United Nations), and Rt Hon Lord Hague of Richmond (former UK Foreign Secretary (2010-14) at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry Coronavirus: FCDO response

Witnesses Sir Simon McDonald (Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service at Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Menna Rawlings (Director-General Economic and Global Issues at Foreign and Commonwealth Office), and Andrew Sanderson (Finance Director at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Witnesses The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP (Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs at Foreign and Commonwealth Office), and Sir Simon McDonald (Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry Coronavirus: FCDO response

Witnesses Professor David R Harper CBE (Senior Consulting Fellow, Global Health Programme at Chatham House, and Managing Director at Harper Public Health Consulting Limited)

Inquiry Environmental diplomacy

Witnesses Katie White (Executive Director Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF), Shane Tomlinson (Deputy Chief Executive Officer at E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism), and Pete Betts (Visiting Professor in Practice at Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)

Inquiry The future of Britain’s diplomatic relationship with Europe - follow up inquiry

Witnesses Raoul Ruparel, Former Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Europe, Philip Rycroft CB, Former Permanent Secretary, Department for Exiting the EU, Florian Eder, Brussels Playbook Editor, PoliticoSir Oliver Robbins, Cabinet Office

Inquiry Autocracies and UK Foreign Policy inquiry

Witnesses Heather Wheeler MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Martin Harris, Director, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Kate White, Director, Asia-Pacific Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry Finding a diplomatic route: European responses to irregular migration inquiry

Witnesses Heather Wheeler MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Matthew Johnson, Head, Mediterranean Migration Unit, Lewis Neal, Director, Economic Diplomacy, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry Economic foreign policy inquiry

Witnesses Dmitry Grozoubinski, founder of ExplainTrade.com, Marianne Schneider-Petsinger, research fellow, US and the Americas Programme, Chatham House, Martin Wolf CBE, Chief Economics commentator, Financial Times, and Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby, Director General, EU Exit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.