Procedure Committee
6 July 2026
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Procedure Committee House of Commons
00:05 - 00:40
Speaker 3
Order, order. Good morning, good afternoon, sorry, and welcome to this session of the Procedure Committee. Today we're continuing our inquiry monitoring the performance of Whitehall departments in responding to WPQs in a timely manner. And this afternoon, we're joined by Seema Malhotra, the Minister for the Indo-Pacific at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Aidan Liddle, head of the Parliamentary Office at the FCDO, to discuss their department's WPQ performance over the last session of Parliament. So good afternoon to you both.
Before we begin, could I ask you to introduce yourselves for the record?
00:40 - 00:51
Lab Member of Parliament | Feltham and Heston
Member of Parliament | Feltham and Heston Seema Malhotra, I'm the Minister for the Indo-Pacific and also with responsibility for departmental operations at the Foreign Office, and also the Member of Parliament for Feltham and Heston.
00:51 - 00:57
Aidan Liddle
Head of the Parliamentary Office at the FCDO
I'm Aidan Liddle, head of the Parliamentary Office at the FCDO, part of the Private Office Directorate.
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