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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

DFID's work on Bangladesh, Burma and the Rohingya crisis inquiry

Inquiry by the International Development Committee, 19 October 2017 to 17 October 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 14 November 2017: David Mepham, UK Director, Human Rights Watch, Champa Patel, Head of Asia Programme, Chatham House, Mark Farmaner, Director, Burma Campaign UK, and Tun Khin, President, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK; Matthew Saltmarsh, Senior Communications Officer, UNHCR, Daphne Jayasinghe, Senior Policy and Advocacy Adviser, International Rescue Committee, and Ian Mowatt, Regional Portfolio Manager, World Vision (at 10.50am).
  • 22 November 2017: Mr Khondker M Talha, Deputy High Commissioner of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom; Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for International Development and Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Montgomery, Director of Asia, Caribbean and Overseas Territories Division, Department for International Development, and Patrick Moody, Additional Director, Asia Pacific Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (at 10.45am).
  • 23 January 2018: Dr Joe Devine, Head of Department Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch, and Dr Ipshita Basu, University of Westminster; Asif Saleh, Senior Director, Strategy, Communication and Empowerment, BRAC, and Farah Kabir, Country Director of ActionAid Bangladesh (at 10.45am).
  • 14 March 2018: David Baulk, Fortify Rights, and Mr. Hkanhpa Tu Sadan, The Kachin Relief Fund-UK; Anthony Smith, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and Dr Niheer Dasandi, University of Birmingham (at 3.15pm).
  • 20 March 2018: Rt Hon Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for the Department for International Development and Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Richard Montgomery, Director, Asia, Caribbean and the Overseas Territories, Department for International Development, and Patrick Moody, Additional Director, Asia Pacific Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.