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Select Committee Inquiry
The UK Government’s China Audit
Inquiry Opened: 27th Mar 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee

Although China is the UK’s fifth largest trading partner, the UK Government has, in recent years, described China as an “epoch-defining and systemic challenge”. Last November, the Foreign Secretary told the Committee that we need a consistent approach to China. 

The Government launched the China Audit in late 2024 …
Select Committee Inquiry
The UK at the United Nations Security Council
Inquiry Opened: 11th Mar 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee

This inquiry considers how effectively the UK uses its position at the UNSC (United Nations Security Council) to influence and bring about an end to global conflict, whilst advancing its goals for a rules-based international order. It will focus on countries for which the UK is a ‘Penholder’ at the …
Select Committee Inquiry
The UK-EU reset: rebuilding a strategic partnership in uncertain times
Inquiry Opened: 7th Mar 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee

The Foreign Affairs Committee is conducting an inquiry into the Government’s proposed reset of the UK-EU relationship. The inquiry will consider all facets of the reset, across the three “pillars” articulated by the Government (security, safety and prosperity) with a particular focus on how the reset process can be engaged …
Select Committee Inquiry
The UK’s sanctions strategy
Inquiry Opened: 27th Jan 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee
Select Committee Inquiry
Disinformation diplomacy: How malign actors are seeking to undermine democracy
Inquiry Opened: 15th Jan 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee

Misinformation and disinformation campaigns are increasingly weaponised by hostile state and non-state actors and this inquiry will seek to understand which actors are primarily responsible, and which channels and technologies are being used. It will seek to map motivations, sources and locations of the most pressing disinformation threats to democracy, …
Select Committee Inquiry
Soft power: a strategy for UK success?
Inquiry Opened: 8th Jan 2025
Foreign Affairs Committee

This inquiry will explore the extent and effectiveness of the UK’s soft power in what is an increasingly challenging global environment. The inquiry will consider the UK’s unique soft power strengths and ask how the UK might best measure and actualise the benefits it accrues from its soft power. This …
Select Committee Inquiry
The work of the British Council
Inquiry Opened: 20th Dec 2024
Foreign Affairs Committee
Select Committee Inquiry
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Inquiry Opened: 25th Nov 2024
Foreign Affairs Committee

The inquiry will ask how the UK and its allies can help to achieve a ceasefire and lasting end to the war in Gaza and Lebanon.  

Read the call for evidence for more details about the inquiry
Select Committee Inquiry
Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Inquiry Opened: 6th Nov 2024
Foreign Affairs Committee

The Committee periodically questions the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and the Permanent Under-Secretary, alongside other relevant officials on the overall management of the FCDO, topical or urgent matters and the Committee’s inquiry work.
Select Committee Inquiry
The BBC World Service: Is Britain Losing its Soft Power?
Inquiry Opened: 5th Nov 2024
Foreign Affairs Committee