During his visit Lord Waverley had a range of meetings with high-ranking Uzbek officials, including in the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, where he discussed prospects for further cooperation between Uzbekistan and the UK.

Lord Waverley presented his new documentary Parliament Revealed, at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and Westminster International University in Tashkent. The documentary is part of a web-based project which explains the workings of the Parliament in the United Kingdom.

Uzbek parliamentarians and hundreds of students watched the film which consists of a series of interviews with parliamentary insiders, with contributors drawn from both Houses of the UK Parliament, as well as House officials and the Speaker of the House of Commons. The interviews explain how and why the UK Parliament works; the roles of parliamentary institutions; how laws are made and scrutinised; who the parliamentarians are and how they do their jobs. Lord Waverley then held lively discussion sessions in the Academy and the two universities, answering a diverse range of questions from participants about the future of the project and its distribution.

Commenting on his visit to Uzbekistan, Lord Waverley said “I have come to Uzbekistan as a friend of this country. I am delighted that my documentary was shown here, in Uzbekistan, from where the idea for the project first originated. I am grateful to my friends in the Oliy Majlis and the Senate for their support and friendship”.