Foreign Affairs Committee

9 juin 2026

The committee opens its one‑off hearing on the Integrated Security Fund, hears witness introductions, and examines how a narrower, domestically focused ISF reduces upstream conflict prevention, UK influence and long‑term security. Witnesses trace the evolution from earlier pooled conflict funds to the ISF, highlighting aid contraction, new hybrid threats, lack of coherent strategy, weakened transparency and diminished UK reliability as a partner.

Foreign Affairs Committee

00:02 - 00:31

Intervenant 6

We are expecting the chair of the committee very shortly and so I will be handing back to her once she arrives, but I think we should start off anyway. So this is a one-off hearing of the committee into the status of the Integrated Security Fund, and perhaps we could start off with your introducing yourselves individually, if that's alright.

00:31 - 00:37

Intervenant 3

Thanks so much for having me. I'm Dr. Kate Ferguson and I'm the co-executive director of Protection Approaches.

00:37 - 00:41

Intervenant 8

I'm Lord Evans of Weardale and I'm the chairman of the HALO Trust.

00:41 - 00:48

Intervenant 7

Thank you for having me. My name is Olivia O'Sullivan. I direct the UK in the World research programme at the think tank Chatham House.

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