Foreign Affairs Committee

Commons select committee, since 3 May 1979. Its page on the Parliament website.

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.

Inquiries

• UK Envoy for Complex Consular Detentions (20 October 2026)
• Cuba (12 October 2026)
• Joint session with the German Foreign Affairs Committee (15 September 2026)
• Government priorities for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (1 September 2026)
• A new Syria: assessing UK strategy in a transitional state (16 July 2026)
• Russia (15 July 2026)
• Follow-up to Israel-Palestine conflict inquiry (29 June 2026)
• Jerusalem Holy Places (23 June 2026)
• Integrated Security Fund (1 June 2026)
• UK/EU Treaty on Gibraltar (13 April 2026)
• Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy: follow-up (25 March 2026)
• The situation in Ukraine (3 February 2026)
• What can we learn from Venezuela? (27 January 2026)
• Lebanon: next steps (20 January 2026)
• Climate diplomacy (27 October 2025)
• The Chagos Agreement (16 June 2025)
• The Iran-Israel conflict (16 June 2025)
• Joint meeting of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ukrainian Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation (13 May 2025)
• The UK Government’s China Audit (27 March 2025 to 20 May 2026)
• The situation in the eastern DRC (11 March 2025)
• The UK at the United Nations Security Council (11 March 2025 to 1 December 2025)
• The UK-EU reset: rebuilding a strategic partnership in uncertain times (7 March 2025 to 9 September 2026)
• The UK’s sanctions strategy (27 January 2025)
• The situation in Syria (20 January 2025)
• Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy (15 January 2025 to 9 September 2026)
• Soft power: a strategy for UK success? (8 January 2025)
• The work of the British Council (20 December 2024)
• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict (25 November 2024 to 30 October 2025)
• Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (6 November 2024)
• The future of the BBC World Service (5 November 2024 to 20 May 2026)
• Follow-up to Xinjiang inquiry (30 January 2024 to 29 April 2024)
• International relations within the multilateral system (12 January 2024 to 29 May 2024)
• Artificial Intelligence and diplomacy (19 October 2023 to 26 April 2024)
• Follow-up to Afghanistan inquiry (18 September 2023 to 29 May 2024)
• Recent coups in West Africa and the Sahel region (11 September 2023 to 26 April 2024)
• The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa (31 July 2023 to 29 May 2024)
• Narco-diplomacy (31 May 2023 to 26 April 2024)
• Recovery in Ukraine (15 May 2023 to 26 April 2024)
• The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy (12 May 2023 to 29 May 2024)
• The situation in Sudan (19 April 2023 to 28 May 2024)
• The UK’s engagement in Central Asia (9 February 2023 to 26 April 2024)
• The UK’s security relationship with the EU (8 February 2023 to 28 May 2024)
• UK universities’ engagement with autocracies (8 February 2023 to 28 May 2024)
• Western Balkans (23 January 2023 to 28 May 2024)
• Critical minerals (19 December 2022 to 26 April 2024)
• Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (6 December 2022 to 26 April 2024)
• The situation in Iran and the FCDO’s response (28 November 2022 to 26 April 2024)
• Update to the UK's Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (11 November 2022 to 31 May 2023)
• UK-Libya relations (6 July 2022 to 26 April 2024)
• The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations (1 April 2022 to 29 May 2024)
• The Wagner Group and beyond: proxy Private Military Companies (30 March 2022 to 26 April 2024)
• Use of strategic lawsuits against public participation (7 March 2022 to 20 July 2022)
• Responding to illicit and emerging finance (1 February 2022 to 26 October 2022)
• The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response (24 January 2022 to 29 May 2024)
• The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the FCDO’s response (10 January 2022 to 29 May 2024)
• Government policy on Afghanistan (1 September 2021 to 29 July 2022)
• Implementing the Integrated Review: Tilt to the Indo-Pacific (22 July 2021 to 29 May 2024)
• The UK's relationship with the EU (14 June 2021 to 26 April 2024)
• The situation in Belarus and the FCDO's response (8 June 2021 to 26 April 2024)
• The Myanmar crisis (29 April 2021 to 23 September 2021)

Organisations it has heard from most

• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (48)
• Chatham House (17)
• Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) (14)
• The University of Oxford (8)
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (7)
• King's College London (7)
• Cabinet Office (6)
• International Institute for Strategic Studies (6)
• United Nations (6)
• International Crisis Group (5)
• London School of Economics (5)
• Human Rights Watch (4)
• Policy Exchange (4)
• Protection Approaches (4)
• Doughty Street Chambers (3)