Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Philippa Whitford and Michael Fallon

Monday 7th November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Sir Michael Fallon]

It is not for us in the west to question the territorial integrity of Iraq. In the end it is for the Iraqi people to decide their borders. One of the aims of the counter-Daesh coalition, which I shall be chairing at its next meeting next month in London, is to focus on the period after the liberation of Mosul and after the final mopping-up operations along the Tigris and in the Euphrates river valley, to see what more can be done by the coalition countries to help Iraq to reinforce its border and ensure that Daesh does not come back through it.

[Dr Philippa Whitford (Central Ayrshire) (SNP)]

4. What recent support the armed forces have provided to the military campaign of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.