Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2018 to Question 133771, if his Department will take steps to notify Parliament when lethal force is used by British armed forces outside of an area of armed conflicts to which the UK is party.

As the Government has stated previously, if the UK resorts to the use of lethal force outside of an armed conflict against an armed attack or the imminent threat of an armed attack, Parliament will be notified. However, for security and operational reasons such notification may need to be after any such use of force has taken place.