Brigid Fowler

congrats all round & hello to Bear!

European Affairs Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament Committee membership for the European Affairs Committee.

We have a new Chair & 8 new Members, after the House agreed the annual rotation of committee Members yesterday. Welcome to our new Chair, Lord Stirrup, & thank you to our outgoing Chair Lord Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social. See our full new line-up here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

some interesting bits & pieces in here. This is an example of the routine scrutiny of EU documents that in the UK Parliament is now done only in the House of Lords ⬇️

We've published the Government's response to our report on the UK-EU reset. Read it here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

oh, no! I'm so sorry. He was lovely! He'll be missed around here.

21 January 2026 - Oral evidence - The Rt Hon the Lord Hanson of Flint - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 14:30 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster

TODAY, Weds 21 Jan 2:30pm, we're taking evidence from Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint - asking Qs on a range of Home Office EU business, incl. citizens' rights & follow-up to last year's summit on law enforcement cooperation & irregular migration committees.parliament.uk/event/25910/...

21 January 2026 - Oral evidence - The Rt Hon the Lord Hanson of Flint - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 14:30 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster

We're taking evidence on Weds (21 Jan 2:30pm) from Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint. We'll be asking re: a range of Home Office EU business, incl. citizens' rights & follow-up to last year's summit on law enforcement cooperation & irregular migration committees.parliament.uk/event/25910/...

21 January 2026 - Oral evidence - The Rt Hon the Lord Hanson of Flint - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 14:30 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster

We're taking evidence on Weds (21 Jan 2:30pm) from Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint. We'll be asking re: a range of Home Office EU business, incl. citizens' rights & follow-up to last year's summit on law enforcement cooperation & irregular migration committees.parliament.uk/event/25910/...

21 January 2026 - Oral evidence - The Rt Hon the Lord Hanson of Flint - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament 14:30 - Room 3, Palace of Westminster

We're taking evidence on Weds 21 Jan (2:30pm) from Home Office Minister Lord Hanson of Flint. We'll be asking re: a range of Home Office EU business, incl. citizens' rights & follow-up to last year's summit on law enforcement cooperation & irregular migration committees.parliament.uk/event/25910/...

European Commission has today recommended UK-EU negotiations for 2 agreements: UK participation in EU internal electricity market & UK financial contribution to reducing EU regional disparities—so, more developments since our Nov report on the UK-EU reset publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

The European Commission has today renewed the UK's EU data adequacy status, to 2031. Based on our earlier work on the issue, in our Nov report on the UK-EU reset we noted renewal "would avoid significant disruption to UK-EU cooperation across the board". publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

We've published a letter we've received today from Nick Thomas-Symonds about the agreement on the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027, plus updates on other negotiations following the 2025 UK-EU summit & confirmation of UK-EU aims before next summit in 2026 committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is at the COSAC conference of European Affairs c'tees in Copenhagen. Noting participants' calls for a stronger Europe, he said Europeans must work together to achieve this—as in Geneva last week—& expressed hope for a pragmatic solution on UK association to SAFE

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is on this week's Parliament Matters podcast from @hansardsociety.bsky.social
(at 21' 25"). He discusses the UK-EU 'reset' & our recent report on it, & Parliament's current & future role in scrutinising UK-EU relations, including prospective dynamic alignment

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is on this week's Parliament Matters podcast from @hansardsociety.bsky.social (at 21' 25"). He discusses the UK-EU 'reset' & our recent report on it, & Parliament's current & future role in scrutinising UK-EU relations, including prospective dynamic alignment

We've written to the Government with Qs re: the European Commission 2026 Annual Work Programme & the Gov's Explanatory Memorandum on it—incl on migration, energy & competitiveness. We look at these documents every year as part of our regular EU scrutiny work. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social and several of our Members are members of the UK delegation to the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA) and taking part in the Assembly's sixth meeting today & tomorrow at Westminster. 📺 Watch live on youtube 🔽

European Affairs Committee - Publications - Committees - UK Parliament Publications for European Affairs Committee

After publishing our UK-EU reset report on Weds, we've sent 2 scrutiny letters to the Gov re: youth experience scheme & SPS & ETS linkage negotiations—especially re: UK financial contributions, & plans re: EU CBAM start on 1/1/26. See all our publications 🔽 committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

📢 We've published our report on the UK-EU reset - the 1st assessment by a parliamentary committee of the Government's progress so far ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...