Annex 4
Oral evidence sessions
During the Session 2008-09 the Committee held 17
oral evidence sessions and the Committees on Arms Export Controls
held three oral evidence sessions. The evidence listed below is
available on the Committee's website, www.parliament.uk/facom.
| Date
| Evidence session
|
| 10 December 2008
| Developments in the European Union
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, and Mr Matthew Rycroft, Director EU, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 21 January 2009
| Strategic Export Controls*
Ian Pearson MP, Economic and Business Minister, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), Mr John Doddrell, Director, Export Control Organisation, BERR, and Ms Jayne Carpenter, Assistant Director, Export Control Organisation, BERR
|
| 28 January 2009
| Global Security: Non-Proliferation
Roy Isbister, UK Working Group on Arms, Dr Dan Plesch, Director, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Mr David Hayes, Chairman, Export Group for Aerospace and Defence
|
| 4 February 2009
| Global Security: Non-Proliferation
Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State, Mariot Leslie, Director-General Defence and Intelligence, and Paul Arkwright, Head of Counter Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 11 February 2009
| Global Security: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Dr Hani Albasoos, political and security analyst, Senior Advisor, House of Wisdom, Palestinian Institute for the Study of Conflict Resolution & Governance, former Assistant Professor, Islamic University, Gaza, Ms Nomi Bar-Yaacov, foreign policy adviser on Middle Eastern affairs, former Head, Middle East Conflict Management Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Dr Ahron Bregman, Department of War Studies, King's College, London, and Professor Iain Scobbie, Sir Joseph Hotung Research Professor in Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
|
| 25 February 2009
| Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Colonel (retired) Christopher Langton, Senior Fellow for Conflict, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Theo Farrell, Professor of War, Department of War Studies, King's College London, Professor Shaun Gregory, Pakistan Security Research Unit, University of Bradford, Sean Langan, British journalist and documentary film-maker
|
| 4 March 2009
| Global Security: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State, and Dr John Jenkins, Director, Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 11 March 2009
| Strategic Export Controls*
Mr Oliver Sprague, Amnesty UK, Ms Marilyn Croser, Oxfam GB, and Mr Roy Isbister, Saferworld, Mr David Hayes, Chairman, Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (EGAD), Mr Nigel Knowles, Vice Chairman, EGAD, and Ms Bernadette Peers, Member, Compliance Support and NGO Liaison Subcommittees, EGAD
|
| 11 March 2009
| Developments in the European Union
Baroness Catherine Ashton, European Trade Commissioner
|
| 25 March 2009
| Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Elizabeth Winter, researcher and social scientist, Dr Jonathan Goodhand, School of Oriental and African Studies, David Mansfield, freelance consultant, and Fabrice Pothier, Director, Carnegie Europe
|
| 21 April 2009
| Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
David Loyn, BBC journalist and author of 'Butcher & Bolt', James Fergusson, journalist and author of 'A Million Bullets', Christina Lamb, Sunday Times journalist and foreign correspondent, Dr Stuart Gordon, Senior Lecturer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Daniel Korski, Senior Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, and Sajjan Gohel, Director of International Security at the Asia-Pacific Foundation (APF)
|
| 22 April 2009
| Strategic Export Controls*
Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State, Jo Adamson, Deputy Head of Counter Proliferation Department, and Andrew Massey, Head of Arms Trade Unit, Counter Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 14 May 2009
| Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State, and Adam Thomson, Director, South Asia and Afghanistan, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 1 June 2009
| Global Security: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Rt Hon Tony Blair, Representative of the Middle East Quartet
|
| 10 June 2009
| Human Rights
Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK, and Tom Porteous, London Director, Human Rights Watch
|
| 16 June 2009
| Human Rights
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, Simon Manley, Director of Defence and Strategic Threats, and Susan Hyland, Head of Human Rights Democracy and Good Governance Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 17 June 2009
| Developments in the European Union
Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Foreign Secretary, and Matthew Rycroft, Director EU, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 21 October 2009
| Pre-appointment Hearing
Rt Hon Baroness Amos of Brondesbury, prospective High Commissioner to Australia, and Mr Asif Ahmad, Head of the South East Asia and Pacific Group (SEAPG), Foreign and Commonwealth Office
|
| 4 November 2009
| FCO Departmental Annual Report 2008-09
Martin Davidson, Chief Executive, Gerard Lemos, Acting Chairman, and Sue Beaumont, Regional Director Near East and North Africa, British Council, Peter Horrocks, Director, Richard Thomas, Chief Operating Officer, and Behrouz Afagh, Head of Asia Pacific Region, BBC World Service
|
| 11 November 2009
| Global Security: UK-US Relations
Dr Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Dr David Dunn, Reader in International Politics, University of Birmingham, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, and Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Royal United Service Institute
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* Committees on Arms Export Controls
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