Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports of chemical attacks in Northern Iraq; and what plans they have to ask the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to investigate those attacks.

The United Kingdom opposes any use of chemical weapons. We are aware of claims that Turkey has used white phosphorus (WP) in northern Iraq. WP is not a chemical weapon. Any state using WP must comply with International Humanitarian Law and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.