Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterpart in Turkey on (a) assaults in the regions of North and East Syria and (b) the possibility of an invasion in those regions.

We are closely monitoring the situation in northern Syria. FCDO Ministers and senior officials engage with Turkey regularly on regional security and stability. The Foreign Secretary met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on 30 November in the margins of the NATO Foreign Ministerial.