Asked by: Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what military or logistical assistance they plan to give the Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units defending Kobani; and whether they now plan to join the United States in mounting aerial bombardment of Daesh military targets in Syria.
Answered by Earl Howe - Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Whilst the UK has not given specific military or logistic assistance to the fighters of People's Protection Units in Kobane, the UK is a major contributor to the wider global coalition working to counter ISIL across Iraq and Syria, which has assisted the Kurdish force to liberate and defend the area.
Whilst UK intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft have been deployed over Syria, the Government has made it clear that it would seek further Parliamentary approval before UK aircraft conducted air strikes in Syria, unless there was a critical British interest at stake or a need to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
Asked by: Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risk that Bahrain’s security services are being infiltrated by supporters of Daesh, and the consequent advisability both of training those services and of basing United Kingdom naval forces in Bahrain.
Answered by Lord Astor of Hever
The Ministry of Defence keeps the security situation in Bahrain under regular review, in order to inform all decisions on security measures for deployed personnel and on co-operation with Bahrain Defence Forces.