Foreign Affairs Committee
The Foreign Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and its associated public bodies.
Current membership
Alicia Kearns MP (Chair) Conservative, Rutland and Melton)
Saqib Bhatti MP (Conservative, Meriden)
Sir Chris Bryant MP (Labour, Rhondda)
Liam Byrne MP (Labour, Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Neil Coyle MP (Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Drew Hendry MP (Scottish National Party, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Andrew Rosindell MP (Conservative, Romford)
Bob Seely MP (Conservative, Isle of Wight)
Henry Smith MP (Conservative, Crawley)
Royston Smith MP (Conservative, Southampton, Itchen)
Graham Stringer MP (Labour, Blackley and Broughton)
The following were also members of the Committee during the 2022–23 session:
Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative, Tonbridge and Malling), Stewart Malcolm
McDonald MP (Scottish National Party, Glasgow South)
Powers
The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.uk.
Publication
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Committee reports are published on the Committee’s website at www.parliament.uk/facom and in print by Order of the House.
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 4050; the Committee’s email address is fac
parliament.uk.
You can follow the Committee on Twitter using @CommonsForeign.
