Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the comment by the Joint Minister of State for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border, that in almost every case the only way to deal with British citizens who have been fighting in Iraq is to kill them was a statement of Government policy.

Government policy is clear. Nobody should be in any doubt about our determination to fight and defeat Daesh terrorists, regardless of nationality. My Rt Hon Friend, the Minister for Africa's comments are consistent with that determination.