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90104

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date	01/09/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Islamic State
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the sources of supply to Islamic State (IS) militants of their weapons and training; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	207799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>We remain deeply concerned about the ability of terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria to acquire weapons and commit atrocities.<br> <br>The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has obtained its weaponry from a variety of sources, including by capturing them from Iraqi and Syrian security forces, and others. Many of ISIL's supply needs are financed by its sale of oil and by money stolen during its advances in recent months.</p><p>We have emphasised the need to intensify efforts to stem the flow of weapons and fighters to extremist groups, including ISIL. Hundreds of foreigners are fighting with ISIL, gaining combat experience and potentially forging connections with other extremists. Since ISIL is a successor to Al Qaida in Iraq, it also has many members with experience of fighting Coalition forces in Iraq after 2003. As part of its strategy to combat ISIL, the UK led work on UN Security Council Resolution 2170, adopted on 15 August, which condemns ISIL, Al-Nusra Front (ANF) and other terrorist groups listed under AQ sanctions. The resolution urges members to take measures to choke off recruitment and to target the growing phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters and ISIL's sources of finance.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 08/09/2014 14:50:24 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

90105

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether chemical weapons have been used by the Syrian government since August 2013; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	207800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>There is credible evidence of repeated chemical weapon attacks perpetrated by the Syrian regime since August 2013. The UK was among the first countries to call for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate these allegations. The OPCW Fact Finding Mission was subsequently established in April 2014 and its work is ongoing. Despite the difficulty of investigating these allegations in a conflict environment, the Mission’s May 2014 interim report stated that the available information “lends credence to the view that toxic chemicals, most likely pulmonary irritating agents such as chlorine, have been used in a systematic manner in a number of attacks”.</p><p>The August 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry report further stated that “Reasonable grounds exist to believe that chemical agents, likely chlorine, were used...[and that]... those agents were dropped in barrel bombs from government helicopters flying overhead”. Any use of chemical agents in warfare contravenes the Chemical Weapon Convention, to which Syria acceded in September 2013. We will press for all those who use chemical weapons to be held to account for these war crimes.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 08/09/2014 15:00:39 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

90194

registered interest
date	01/09/2014
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Kincora Children's Home
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will take steps to ensure Kincora Boys Home, formerly in Belfast, is included within the over-arching inquiry into the sexual abuse of children commissioned by the Home Office; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	207795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Inquiry panel of experts, announced by my Rt hon Friend the Home Secretary on 7th July, is currently being set up. It will review whether public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse.</p><p>My Rt hon Friend informed the House on 5th September that it will be chaired by Fiona Woolf. Its terms of reference are yet to be determined but the Home Secretary will consider carefully any representations made to her concerning those.</p><p>The Inquiry will co-operate fully with devolved administrations, and in Wales it will consider some non-devolved matters relating to institutions there such as policing. As these equivalent issues are devolved to the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive it will be a matter for those administrations to consider how they should be addressed.</p><p>The Home Secretary has given an assurance that the Home Office will talk to the devolved administrations and work with them in respect of this Inquiry.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 10/09/2014 15:19:38 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon