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1694158

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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 estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of RAF sorties over Yemen in 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	17410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 4 March 2024 to Question 15797.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 12/03/2024 11:21:33 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey attachment 1 file name UIN 15797.docx title Yemen: Military Intervention
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1685237

registered interest
date	26/01/2024
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 his oral contribution of 24 January 2024, Official Report, column 352, on what evidential basis he authorised air strikes on the Miraj surface-to-air missile launchers near Sanaa airfield; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of those strikes on shipping in the Red Sea.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	11654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2024 answer text <p>Every mission carried out by RAF aircraft is analysed carefully and informed by robust intelligence.</p><p> </p><p>The eight targets comprised Miraj surface to air missile launchers, which posed a threat to the success of the coalition operation against the military facilities involved in the Houthi anti-shipping campaign.</p><p> </p><p>Our analysis suggests that all of the targets were successfully engaged.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 31/01/2024 11:38:10 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1681935

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the potential risk to civilians of a closure of Hudaydah port.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	9545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>Yemen is almost entirely reliant on imports for food, importing approximately 90 per cent of food staples such as wheat. Hodeidah Port is key to food security in Yemen, as it receives 40 to 50 per cent of the country's food imports, as well as essential food aid.</p><p>The disruption to shipping in the Red Sea caused by Houthi attacks, risks driving up costs of supplies of food and humanitarian aid in the region, including to Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Lebanon.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 18/01/2024 14:54:03 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

1682208

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
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 any UK assets in Oman have assisted (a) UK and (b) US airstrikes in Yemen since 11 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	9660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>No UK military assets in Oman have assisted either UK or US airstrikes on Yemen since 11 January 2024.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 22/01/2024 14:28:27 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1417374

registered interest
date	27/01/2022
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of whether components from the Raytheon factory in Glenrothes formed part of the missile that hit a detention centre in Sa’adah, Yemen on 21 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	113271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>We are looking into recent reports of impact of airstrikes on civilians in Yemen. We urge all parties to the Yemen conflict to exercise restraint and avoid further civilian impact and suffering. The Government takes its strategic export control responsibilities very seriously. The Government will not grant an export licence if to do so would be inconsistent with the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria, including respect for human rights and international humanitarian law.  All licences are kept under careful and continual review as standard.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 01/02/2022 16:44:35 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1356248

registered interest
date	16/09/2021
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 report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and Human Rights in the Gulf, entitled The cost of repression, published on 6 July 2021, what assessment the Government has made of the implications for its policies of the findings of that report that the Royal Saudi Air Force and the Joint Incident Assessment Team, beneficiaries of the Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF), have been accused of perpetrating illegal drone strikes against civilians in Yemen and conducting inadequate investigations into potential war crimes in Yemen; and if the Government will suspend GSF programmes pending an independent inquiry into their human rights implications.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	50625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2021 answer text <p>All training and assistance to both the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) and the Joint Incident Assessment Team (JIAT) - as well as any programmes funded by the Gulf Strategy Fund (GSF) - are subject to an Overseas Security Justice and Assistance Assessment (OSJA). These OSJAs consider human rights concerns about the institution/unit that will receive the assistance, are refreshed on a yearly basis, and are endorsed by Ministers.</p><p>GSF funded assistance to the Royal Saudi Land Forces is intended to support Saudi Arabia's efforts to protect their national security while improving their compliance with international humanitarian law.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 22/09/2021 16:00:15 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1275653

registered interest
date	12/01/2021
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for Government policy on arms sales to Saudi Arabia of President-elect Biden’s pledge to end US support for the Saudi-led War in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	136475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2021 answer text <p>The UK takes its export control responsibilities and obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty extremely seriously and regularly calls on states which have not yet implemented various arms control instruments to accede to these instruments as soon as possible. We assess all export licences in accordance with strict licensing criteria. The UK regularly raises, at senior level, the importance of complying with International Humanitarian Law and of conducting thorough and conclusive investigations into alleged violations with Saudi Arabia.</p><p>The Prime Minister spoke to President-elect Biden on 10 November to congratulate him. They discussed the close and longstanding relationship between our countries and committed to building on this partnership in the years ahead.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 18/01/2021 18:12:32 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1235549

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September to Question 86598, in respect of the 33 allegations entered into the MOD tracker and awaiting assessment, (a) whether that assessment is now complete, (b) whether the incidents were evaluated under the revised methodology to consider whether they constituted possible violations of international humanitarian law, and (c) if he will publish the results of that evaluation.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	91595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>Of the 33 allegations awaiting assessment, 30 have been assessed. All were evaluated using the revised methodology. Publication of specific information about these assessments is being withheld for the purposes of safeguarding national security and/or because its disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and another State/other States.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 24/09/2020 11:02:54 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1233479

registered interest
date	10/09/2020
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, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July to Question 68798, how many alleged breaches or violations of International Humanitarian Law in Yemen took place in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018, (e) 2019 and (f) 2020 to date.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	88410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2020 answer text <p>Disaggregating the number of alleged instances of breaches or violations of International Humanitarian Law in Yemen listed on the &quot;Tracker&quot; database would be misleading without the addition of sensitive contextual information, which I am withholding as its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and other states.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 17/09/2020 12:17:27 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1181961

registered interest
date	02/03/2020
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	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he is taking steps to investigate attacks against Oxfam infrastructure and projects in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	23573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government is deeply concerned by attacks against Oxfam infrastructure and projects in Yemen. We urge all parties to the conflict to respect and act in accordance with International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Whenever we receive reports of alleged violations of IHL, including any attacks against Oxfam, we routinely seek information from all credible sources, including from Non-Governmental Organisations and international organisations.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 05/03/2020 17:02:41 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith