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1108743

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK military personnel have been deployed in Yemen in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
uin	239187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Defence Attache accompanied the Foreign Secretary on his trip to Aden at the beginning of March. I am aware of speculative media conjecture regarding UK Special Forces in Yemen but, as the hon. Member knows, it is a longstanding policy of successive Governments not to comment on Special Forces.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 04/04/2019 14:36:59 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

1105680

registered interest
date	27/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether UK forces have been involved in any direct military action in Yemen in the last six months.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL14863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2019 answer text <p>The UK provides information, advice and assistance to Saudi Arabia to respond to the threat of strategic weapons fired by the Houthis into Saudi Arabia. We are not and have never been a member of the Saudi-led Coalition. Our assistance is clearly limited to addressing this specific threat. UK military personnel in Saudi Arabia remain under UK command and control.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 01/04/2019 16:22:11 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1105021

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the British armed forces have been injured on active service in the Yemen in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
uin	236344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 236345 236346 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:39:17 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

1105022

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Daily Mail article entitled Our secret dirty war, published on 23 March 2019, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of reports that members of the British armed forces have recently been injured in the Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
uin	236345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 236344 236346 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:39:17 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

1105023

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of operations involving British armed forces in the Yemen in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Sutton Coldfield
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Mitchell
uin	236346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 236344 236345 question first answered 28/03/2019 16:39:17 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell

1086593

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether UK military personnel on exchange programmes with the US Air Force are working in (a) in Yemen (b) in the skies above Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	230883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>No.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/03/2019 14:21:19 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1077681

registered interest
date	26/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether UK RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft are operating over Yemen in support of the Saudi-led coalition.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	226193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>We do not comment on the operational deployments of RC-135W Rivet Joint as to do so would, or would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 04/03/2019 16:36:08 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1045602

registered interest
date	21/01/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which UK-supplied military equipment has been used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen since March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Chris Williamson
uin	210522
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>As my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Defence (Sir Michael Fallon) said on the 19 December 2016 (Official Report 618, column 1216), the Royal Saudi Air Force has operated UK-supplied Typhoon and Tornado aircraft in Yemen and used Paveway, Dual Mode Brimstone, Storm Shadow and ALARM munitions.</p><p>The Saudi-led Coalition confirmed that a limited number of UK-manufactured BL-755 munitions were dropped in Yemen but that these UK manufactured munitions would be no longer used.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 29/01/2019 17:23:12 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	3976 label Biography information for Chris Williamson

993673

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the level of risk of UK weapons being used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen in military action deemed illegal under international law.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	182793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Our arms export licensing regime is one of the most rigorous in the world.</p><p>The key test for our arms exports to Saudi Arabia in relation to international humanitarian law (IHL) is whether there is a clear risk that those items subject to the licence might be used in a serious violation of IHL. The situation is kept under careful and continual review.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 29/10/2018 16:51:27 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton previous answer version 81203 answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

989543

registered interest
date	17/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether restrictions have been placed on the work of Saudi-based UK (a) military personnel and (b) private contractors to his Department, in relation to the (i) preparation, (ii) maintenance and (iii) operational use of air-delivered weapons used in the conflict in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	180801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>UK-contracted personnel, including UK military personnel on secondment to BAE Systems, support the safe storage and issue of weapons from their place of storage to an end user, in accordance with long-standing government-to-government arrangements.</p><p>They do not load weapons for operations in Yemen, nor are they involved in the planning of operational sorties.</p><p>The UK Government operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 29/10/2018 16:46:54 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew previous answer version 81201 answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald