Lords examine future UK-EU foreign and international development policy cooperation
Monday 18 January 2021
Tomorrow, the House of Lords EU Security and Justice Committee will hear from Lord Ahmad, FCDO Minister of State, on post-Brexit UK-EU cooperation on foreign affairs and international development.
The virtual evidence session will start at 10am on Tuesday 19 January and can be followed on Parliament TV.
The Committee will question Lord Ahmad, seeking to understand how the Government intends to cooperate with the EU on foreign policy and international development, now that the UK has left the EU.
Witnesses:
At 10.00am
- Lord Ahmad, Minister for South Asia and the Commonwealth in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
- Giles Portman, EU Director at the FCDO
- Lisa Maguire, Head of Sanctions Unit and Deputy Director Multilateral at the FCDO
Questions likely to be asked include:
- What are the Government’s objectives in international development and foreign policy, and to what extent do these objectives require collaboration with the EU?
- How will cooperation on international development and foreign policy, including sanctions policy, work in practice?
- Does the UK wish to continue to influence EU foreign policy? If so, how will it seek to do so?
- How does the Government intend to mitigate the impact of Brexit on NGOs that rely on EU funding?
