Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government received information following the inspection of Barzeh by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at any time in the six months before missile strikes were initiated against that location on 14 April 2018.

​The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reports on a monthly basis to the UN Security Council on the Syrian chemical weapons programme. Its report of 24 November 2017 noted Syria's declaration of parts of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) and the OPCW assessment that this declaration remained incomplete. The OPCW report of 23 March 2018 reported on the inspections at the Barzeh facility of the SSRC, and repeated the conclusion that outstanding issues remained unresolved and the declaration remained incomplete.