Humanitarian Law (Yemen)

John Bercow Excerpts
Monday 5th September 2016

(8 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tobias Ellwood Portrait Mr Ellwood
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I will raise that. This question has already been raised by a Labour Member and I will look at it again, but my understanding is that nobody is being returned to a war zone.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I would just make the point that it is not uncommon for the same point to be raised more than once in the course of an interrogation of a Minister, a fact with which I am sure the hon. Gentleman is intensely familiar.

Mike Wood Portrait Mike Wood (Dudley South) (Con)
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Will the Minister reassure the House that the conflict in Yemen and accusations of breaches of international humanitarian law are taken into consideration when looking at extending arms exports?