Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 29 March 2017 to Question 69107, on how many occasions analysts have highlighted a possible indication of civilian casualties or collateral damage caused by UK airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

During the Ministry of Defence's own internal review of each strike, military experts assess not only its effectiveness but also the potential for it to have caused civilian casualties, by reference to the recorded data. Airwars provides regular sets of information about civilian casualties potentially caused by Coalition airstrikes. These are examined in detail - again in comparison with our records, which include photographs and video. In all of these detailed assessments so far, there has been no evidence that any UK airstrike has caused civilian casualties.