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Yemen: Military Intervention

Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 11 October 2017.

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Photo of Catherine West Catherine West Labour, Hornsey and Wood Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of civilian casualties killed in Saudi Arabian air strikes in Yemen.

Photo of Mark Lancaster Mark Lancaster The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence does not make an assessment of the number of civilian casualties as a result of Saudi Arabian air strikes as we do not have access to all the information that would allow us to do so accurately.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 11 October 2017, cW)

Intervention

An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.

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