Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he last discussed the conflict against ISIL with representatives of the Kurdistan regional government.

My officials in Erbil, Baghdad and London discuss the conflict against ISIL with representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on a regular basis.

I last discussed this issue with KRG representatives during my visit to Erbil on 13 October in meetings with both KRG President Masoud Barzani and KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani.

The Minister for the Middle East, my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), discussed this issue with the Head of the KRG’s Department for Foreign Relations, Mr Falah Mustafa, on Thursday 11 December.