Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many aircraft in the Syrian air force are capable of delivering chemical weapons.

Most of the fixed-wing and rotary aircraft in the Syrian air force are capable of delivering chemical weapons as well as conventional munitions. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) has found that regime aircraft have delivered chemical weapons on several occasions, including in the 4 April 2017 Khan Sheikhoun attack, which killed nearly one hundred people. Monitoring groups on the ground have also reported that chemical weapons have been delivered through barrel bombs, dropped from regime helicopters, including in the reported chemical attack in Douma on the 7 April 2018.