Select Committee · Foreign Affairs Committee

Tech and the future of UK foreign policy

Status: Closed Opened: 8 Mar 2021 Closed: 24 Oct 2022 7 recommendations 3 conclusions 1 report

This inquiry will focus on how the FCDO should be supporting the UK’s response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and emerging technologies, including through new forms of diplomatic engagement and building globally shared understandings of standards, rules and norms for the responsible development and use of new technologies. Read the call for …

Reports

1 report

Title	HC No.	Published	Items	Response
Third report - Encoding values: Putting tech at the heart o…	HC 170	8 Jul 2022	10	Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item

10 Recommendation Third report - Encoding values: Putting… Accepted in Part

We recommend that the FCDO designs and publishes in its forthcoming International Technology Strategy metrics...

We recommend that the FCDO designs and publishes in its forthcoming International Technology Strategy metrics on how it is supporting the Integrated Review’s goal of establishing the UK as a science & tech superpower. Performance against these metrics should be set out in the Department’s annual report and accounts. (Paragraph …

Government response. The FCDO will publish data and information on international technology partnerships in its annual report and accounts but refers to an internal Government implementation plan for agreed metrics and milestones.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Oral evidence sessions

5 sessions

Date	Witnesses
1 Mar 2022	Chris Jones · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Professor Charlotte Watts · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Rt Hon Amanda Milling	View ↗
11 Jan 2022	Balthasar Staehelin · International Committee of the Red Cross, John Hughes · Twitter, Miranda Sissons · Meta, Sarah Spencer · International Committee of the Red Cross	View ↗
2 Nov 2021	David Sullivan · Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, Jason Pielemeier · Global Network Initiative, Joe Westby · Amnesty International, Katie O'Donovan · Google UK	View ↗
7 Sep 2021	Anne-Marie Engtoft Larsen · Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark, Martijn Rasser · Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Tobias Feakin · Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ulrike Franke · European Council on Foreign Relations	View ↗
29 Jun 2021	Ashish Jaiman · Microsoft, Harriet Moynihan · Chatham House, Hugh Milward · Microsoft, Ria Thomas · Polynia Advisory, Toomas Ilves	View ↗

Correspondence

3 letters

Date	Direction	Title
6 Jul 2022	—	Correspondence from the Tech Envoy & HM Consul General to San Francisco on his …
24 Nov 2021	To cttee	Letter from Google following their appearance before the Committee on 2 Novembe…
28 Jul 2021	—	Correspondence from Microsoft following up on their appearance before the Commi…