FCO consular services

Inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee, 2 December 2013 to 30 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 5th Report - Support for British nationals abroad: The Consular Service (23 November 2014)
• Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2014-15 (HC 516) on FCO Consular Services (23 January 2015)

Evidence sessions

• 4 February 2014: 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
• 25 February 2014: 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
• 1 July 2014: Mark Simmonds MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, FCO, Joanna Roper, Director, Consular Services, FCO and Susan Caldwell, Head, Strategy and Network Department, FCO