Yemen

Henry Smith Excerpts
Monday 11th June 2018

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alistair Burt Portrait Alistair Burt
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Seeking to discourage an attack on Hodeidah is hardly unconditional support.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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What estimate has the Minister made of the amount of rockets and other munitions that have been fired by the Houthis into Saudi Arabia during the four years of the Yemeni conflict?

Alistair Burt Portrait Alistair Burt
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It is difficult to say. A recent rocket attack killed three Saudi civilians, and there have been a number of different attacks. Attacks on the airport and the royal palace in Saudi have been prevented. Should one of these missiles land on such a target, the whole circumstance in the middle east would change radically.