Part of Isil – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 28 October 2014.
Philip Hammond
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
11:30,
28 October 2014
As I have just said, the Prime Minister has appointed Lieutenant General Sir Simon Mayall as his security envoy to the Kurdistan region of Iraq. At the request of the Government of Iraq, we have delivered over 300 tonnes of supplies to Irbil. This includes over 100 tonnes of weapons and equipment from the UK. We are instructing peshmerga soldiers on the operation of the heavy machine guns that we have delivered, as well as on counter-IED techniques.