Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Kirsten Oswald Excerpts
Monday 13th March 2017

(7 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin
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I will follow this up with the hon. Gentleman, but I can confirm—I am sure he shares my delight—that north Wales has been selected for the global hub outside the US for all the maintenance and repair of the avionics.

Kirsten Oswald Portrait Kirsten Oswald (East Renfrewshire) (SNP)
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The Secretary of State will have seen reports of armed drones operated from RAF Waddington with a kill list targeting UK citizens. If those reports are right, what happened to the commitment to come to the House at the earliest opportunity if lethal force was used in self-defence, and does the kill list extend beyond geographical areas where military action has been authorised by this House?

Michael Fallon Portrait Sir Michael Fallon
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Let me just make it clear to the hon. Lady and to the House that those involved in supporting Daesh in Iraq and in Syria are certainly liable to be killed by coalition forces, and those who pose a very direct threat to this country are also likely, if there is no other way of forestalling that threat, to be targeted.