International Relations and Defence Committee

Lords select committee, since 25 May 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

The International Relations and Defence Committee is appointed to consider the United Kingdom’s international relations and defence policy

Inquiries

Multilateralism (14 May 2026)
SDR implementation (14 May 2026)
Chagossian views on the Agreement with Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago (19 November 2025 to 17 December 2025)
The Strategic Defence Review 2025 (16 June 2025)
Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago (9 June 2025 to 3 July 2025)
International development (4 June 2025)
Implications of the transfer of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago (4 June 2025 to 9 November 2025)
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (3 April 2025)
Ukraine (25 February 2025)
The UK’s future relationship with the US (24 January 2025)
Chagos Islands: historical context and administration (23 October 2024)
Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence -Session 2023/24 (10 May 2024 to 10 May 2024)
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (28 March 2024 to 7 May 2024)
The Global Combat Air Programme (23 February 2024 to 12 March 2024)
Implications of the war in Ukraine for UK Defence (20 February 2024 to 6 March 2025)
Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia-Azerbaijan relations (18 December 2023 to 17 January 2024)
The UK and the Western Balkans (16 October 2023 to 16 February 2024)
The Arctic (30 March 2023 to 9 January 2025)
Defence concepts and capabilities: from aspiration to reality (29 March 2022 to 30 June 2023)
Impact of merging of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development (17 March 2022 to 31 December 2022)
UK and Afghanistan: follow-up (8 March 2022 to 28 March 2022)
The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa: follow-up (20 January 2022 to 3 February 2022)
Secretary of State for Defence (18 October 2021 to 1 November 2021)
UNCLOS: fit for purpose in the 21st century? (15 October 2021 to 28 November 2022)
Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (23 April 2021 to 29 April 2021)
VSO International (18 March 2021 to 20 March 2021)
The UK’s security and trade relationship with China (25 February 2021 to 20 October 2022)
Open Skies and New START (24 September 2020 to 1 December 2020)
The UK and Afghanistan (24 July 2020 to 24 January 2022)
World Health Organisation (25 June 2020 to 25 November 2020)
2020 NPT Review Conference (26 February 2020 to 30 April 2020)
The UK and Sub-Saharan Africa (29 July 2019 to 8 September 2021)
Pacific Alliance inquiry (26 April 2019 to 5 November 2018)
Minister for Middle East to give evidence on Yemen (11 January 2019 to 5 November 2018)
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and nuclear disarmament inquiry (5 November 2018 to 5 November 2018)
NATO and FCO officials discuss NATO Summit 2018 (16 March 2018 to 16 March 2018)
Foreign policy in changed world conditions inquiry (12 January 2018 to 12 January 2018)
Government discusses Commonwealth Heads of Government (20 December 2017 to 20 December 2017)
Beyond Brexit: the UK and the Balkans inquiry (20 July 2017 to 20 July 2017)
Transformation of power in the Middle East and implications for UK policy inquiry (3 October 2016 to 1 September 2017)
Priorities for the Commonwealth Secretary-General (15 July 2016 to 1 August 2016)
UK priorities for the new UN Secretary-General inquiry (27 June 2016 to 3 November 2016)

Organisations it has heard from most

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (16)
King's College London (12)
Chatham House (10)
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) (10)
Ministry of Defence (9)
International Institute for Strategic Studies (7)
University of Oxford (7)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (5)
RAND Europe (5)
RUSI (5)
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (5)
European Council on Foreign Relations (3)
International Crisis Group (3)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (3)
Overseas Development Institute (3)