FCDO appears before Foreign Affairs Committee for state hostage taking inquiry
The Foreign Affairs Committee holds evidence session on state-level hostage taking, hearing from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), including the Minister of State Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon.
Meeting details
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
The FCDO’s approach to state level hostage situations
The session is likely to be the final evidence session in the Committee’s inquiry, covering the FCDO’s strategy for dealing with arbitrary detention. Questions may cover the approaches the Government takes to addressing the problem of state hostage taking and arbitrary detention, the interactions between the Government and families of detainees, and how the Government communicates publicly on such cases.