Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he has recently received requests from officials in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq to discuss with them the establishment of an independent Kurdish state; and if he will make a statement.

We have not recently received any requests from officials in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for discussions on the establishment of an independent Kurdish state. The UK is committed to a stable, secure, prosperous and unified Iraq. We believe that the Kurds have an important role to play in building that future and confronting the threat ISIL poses to all of Iraq’s communities.