Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry The UK's relations with Hong Kong: 30 years after the Joint Declaration

Witnesses Caroline Wilson, Consul General to Hong Kong, on behalf of UKTI, Hong Kong and Frances Moffett-Kouadio, Trade Commissioner, UKTI, Hong Kong

Inquiry FCO performance and finances 2013-14

Witnesses Sir Simon Fraser KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary, Deborah Bronnert CMG, Chief Operating Officer and Iain Walker, Director, Finance, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Witnesses Tobias Ellwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and Edward Oakden, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry The FCO's human rights work in 2013

Witnesses The Rt Hon Baroness Warsi, Senior Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Minister of State for Faith and Communities, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Rob Fenn, Head of Human Rights and Democracy Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry The UK's relations with Hong Kong: 30 years after the Joint Declaration

Witnesses Lord Patten, Professor Horesh and Dr Kaeding

Inquiry Appointment of Lord Hill of Oareford to the European Commission

Witnesses Rt Hon Lord Hill of Oareford

Inquiry Hong Kong

Witnesses The Hon. Anson Chan and Mr Martin Lee QC

Inquiry Russia and Ukraine

Witnesses Edward Lucas, Senior Editor, The Economist and Dr Alex Pravda, Senior Research Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford

Inquiry UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Witnesses Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government High Representative to the UK, Peter Galbraith and Dr Ali Allawi, former Minister of Trade, Defence and Finance, Government of Iraq

Inquiry FCO consular services

Witnesses Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, FCO, Joanna Roper, Director, Consular Services, FCO and Susan Caldwell, Head, Strategy and Network Department, FCO

Inquiry The FCO's human rights work in 2013

Witnesses David Mepham, UK Director, Human Rights Watch, Tim Hancock, Head of the Chief Executive's Office, Amnesty International UK, and Professor Malcolm Evans OBE, Professor of Public International law, University of Bristol, gave evidence.

Inquiry UK Government policy on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Witnesses Professor Charles Tripp, Professor of Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Professor Gareth Stansfield, Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies, Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter and John Roberts, Energy Security Specialist and Senior Partner, Methinks Ltd

Inquiry Developments in Libya

Witnesses Oliver Miles CMG, former UK Ambassador to Libya; Noman Benotman, Quilliam President; Sir Dominic Asquith, KCMG, former UK Ambassador to Libya, and Chairman of the Libyan-British Business Council

Inquiry The future of the BBC World Service

Witnesses James Harding, BBC Director of News and Current Affairs, and Lord Williams of Baglan, BBC Trust’s International Trustee

Inquiry UK policy towards Iran

Witnesses Rt Hon William Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and Edward Oakden, Director, Middle East and North Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Inquiry The future of the BBC World Service

Witnesses Peter Horrocks, Director, and Richard Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, BBC World Service

Inquiry FCO consular services

Witnesses Giles Paxman CMG LVO, former British Ambassador to Spain and Mexico, and Sir Michael Arthur KCMG, former British Ambassador to Germany and former High Commissioner to India

Inquiry UK policy towards Iran

Witnesses Professor Alan Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, and Oren Kessler, Middle East Research Fellow, The Henry Jackson Society

Inquiry FCO consular services

Witnesses Mark Tanzer, Chief Executive, ABTA; Bruno Min, Assistance Coordinator, Fair Trials International, and Kevin Laue, legal advisor, Redress; Eve Henderson, Director and Co-founder, Support After Murder and Manslaughter Abroad

Inquiry UK policy towards Iran

Witnesses Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Ben Wallace MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, and Rt Hon Lord Lamont of Lerwick, members, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Iran; Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies