Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to discuss with the government of Turkey, through NATO and other channels, its alleged use of illegal cluster-weapons, in particular at Shushane village and near the city of Erbil in northern Iraq; and whether they will report the result of those discussions to Parliament.

We monitor the situation in northern Syria and Iraq closely, and carefully consider any reports of breaches of International Humanitarian Law or the Law of Armed Conflict. We regularly discuss ongoing Turkish operations with Turkish officials, and raise concerns that are credible and substantiated. We will consider carefully any representations on specific, substantiated allegations of use of banned or treaty-limited munitions by Turkish forces. To date we have received no such representations.