Foreign Affairs Select Committee
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The Foreign Affairs Select Committee is one of many select committees of the British House of Commons, which scrutinises the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.[1]
Membership
Membership of the committee is as follows:[2]
Changes since 2024
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2024 | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Claire Hazelgrove MP (Labour) | Filton and Bradley Stoke | → | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Alex Ballinger MP (Labour) | Halesowen | Hansard |
| 16 December 2024 | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Matthew Patrick MP (Labour) | Wirral West | → | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Phil Brickell MP (Labour) | Bolton West | Hansard |
2019-2024 Parliament
The chair was elected on 29 January 2020, with the members of the committee being announced on 2 March 2020.[3][4] In 2022 Tom Tugendhat stepped down as the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee after assuming a ministerial role as Minister for Security. He was replaced by Alicia Kearns.
Changes 2019-2024
2017–2019 Parliament
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.[5][6]
Changes 2017–2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 February 2018 | rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Nus Ghani MP (Conservative) | Wealden | → | rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Priti Patel MP (Conservative) | Witham | Hansard |
| Nadhim Zahawi MP (Conservative) | Stratford-on-Avon | Bob Seely MP (Conservative) | Isle of Wight | |||||
| 19 March 2019 | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Ian Austin MP (Independent) | Dudley North | → | rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Conor McGinn MP (Labour)Template:Efn | St Helens North | Hansard |
| style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Mike Gapes MP (Change UK) | Stratford-on-Avon | Catherine West MP (Labour)Template:Efn | Hornsey and Wood Green | ||||
2015–2017 Parliament
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 8 July 2015.[7][8]
Changes 2015–2017
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2016 | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Yasmin Qureshi MP (Labour) | Bolton South East | → | style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color" | | Ian Murray MP (Labour) | Edinburgh South | Hansard |
2010–2015 Parliament
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010.[9][10]
Changes 2010–2015
Chairs
| Chair | Party | Constituency | Term of office | Electors | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Anthony Kershaw | Conservative | Stroud | 3 May 1979 | 1 January 1987 | Committee |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | David Howell | Conservative | Guildford | 1 January 1987 | 21 March 1997 | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Donald Anderson | Labour | Swansea East | 16 July 1997 | 12 July 2005 | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Mike Gapes | Labour | Ilford South | 18 July 2005 | 12 April 2010 | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Richard Ottaway | Conservative | Croydon South | 10 June 2010 | 30 March 2015 | Commons |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Crispin Blunt | Conservative | Reigate | 18 June 2015 | 3 May 2017 | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Tom Tugendhat | Conservative | Tonbridge and Malling | 12 July 2017 | 6 September 2022 | |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" | | Alicia Kearns | Conservative | Rutland and Melton | 12 October 2022 | Incumbent | |
Inquiries
The Foreign Affairs Committee carries out many inquiries, and publishes a variety of reports, including an annual Human Rights Report. During its inquiry into the government's decision to invade Iraq, David Kelly famously gave evidence to the committee on 15 July 2003, two days before his death.
In 2015 through 2016 the committee conducted an extensive and highly critical inquiry into the British involvement in the Libyan Civil War. It concluded that the early threat to civilians had been overstated and that the significant Islamist element in the rebel forces had not been recognised, due to an intelligence failure. By summer 2011 the initial limited intervention to protect Libyan civilians had become a policy of regime change. However that new policy did not include proper support and for a new government, leading to a political and economic collapse in Libya and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. The report concluded that the former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for this British policy failure.[11][12][13]
See also
References
External links
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Foreign Affairs Committee Members
- Former Foreign Affairs Committee Members
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