Counter-ISIL Coalition Strategy Debate

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Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL]

Counter-ISIL Coalition Strategy

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Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL]
Monday 20th July 2015

(8 years, 9 months ago)

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Lord Ashton of Hyde Portrait Lord Ashton of Hyde (Con)
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My Lords, there have been equal numbers on both sides so if we are very quick, we can have the Conservative and then the Cross Benches.

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Is my noble friend aware that I was an embedded RAF officer responsible to the Canadian Government in the 1950s and that there is nothing unusual about that? Will he please clarify the point about airspace raised by the noble Lord, Lord West? Is he saying that there is an air exclusion zone across the 30% of the ground area of Syria that is controlled by ISIL? Is he further saying that the surveillance drones are surveilling only that 30%?

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