Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are planning to take to comply with paragraph 6.2.6 of the Council of Europe Resolution 2190 (2017) by supporting the setting up of the Investigative Team in the UN Security Council to support the Iraqi justice system in gathering evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by Daesh in Iraq.

​The UK is at the forefront of international efforts to bring Daesh to justice. On 21 September 2017, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to adopt UK-proposed Daesh Accountability Resolution 2379, which requests the UN Secretary General to establish an Investigative Team to collect, preserve and store evidence of Daesh crimes, beginning in Iraq. The Team will be led by a Special Adviser with a mandate to promote the need to bring Daesh to justice across the globe. The UK has pledged £1 million as a voluntary contribution to support the setting up of the Investigative Team.