United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 22754
Middle East: Military Aid
Original
Introduced
19 April 2024
Last action
29 April 2024 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
29 April 2024
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he uses to determine whether to hold a vote in Parliament on (a) military action and (b) the deployment of defence operations in the Middle East.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
19 April 2024
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria he uses to determine whether to hold a vote in Parliament on (a) military action and (b) the deployment of defence operations in the Middle East.
Source: Commons
29 April 2024
Answer
Publicising operational activity to Parliament in advance could undermine operational effectiveness and potentially risk the lives of Armed Forces personnel involved. The deployment of the Armed Forces is a prerogative power, and the Government is under n...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Ministry of Defence · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-04-19/22754
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1702433
- uk · wq-1702433 · source updated 29 April 2024