Military Aid: Yemen

Attorney General written question – answered at on 8 April 2025.

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Photo of Bell Ribeiro-Addy Bell Ribeiro-Addy Labour, Clapham and Brixton Hill

To ask the Solicitor General, what legal advice she has sought on the UK's military assistance to the US in Yemen.

Photo of Lucy Rigby Lucy Rigby The Solicitor-General

The Law Officers’ Convention applies to advice which may or may not have been given by the Law Officers, or requested of the Law Officers, and the Convention applies to your question.

The Law Officers’ Convention can be found at paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May:

“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragraph [5.14] of the Ministerial Code [updated on 6 November 2024]. The purpose of this convention is to enable the Government to obtain frank and full legal advice in confidence.”

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