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HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateThat is an interesting idea. Whether something under the auspices of the UN as a whole would be the right way to go is another question, but the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We want to see accountability and we want to see a deterrent effect. Obviously, it is difficult. It is challenging on the ground, but our…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateOf course, Turkey has received a significant number of refugees itself. I can tell the hon. Lady that we have made clear our opposition to Turkey’s military operation in the…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman for his support and for the forensic contributions that he makes on this important issue. As I said to the hon. Member for Wigan (Lisa Nandy), we are…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is right to say that as well as all the material support that we provide in humanitarian terms and all the…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the other Select Committee—the Intelligence and Security Committee—and he is right to raise both those issues. It is difficult for me to…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMay I first thank the hon. Lady for her support for the military action we are taking against Daesh? We have not always had that from the Opposition side of the House, but it is…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI totally agree with the hon. Gentleman. We have played a leading role in the global coalition, which has scaled back and ended Daesh’s occupation of territory. That is critical…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank my hon. Friend and, as she says, I warmly welcome the international community’s election of the first British chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. Along…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI thank the hon. Lady for her support for the military action we are taking. She is right to emphasise the importance of a strategic approach. I do not accept the point she has…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on our ongoing campaign to counter Daesh. The safety and security of our citizens is obviously the Government’s…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern. We are a leader in ODA, and we will remain a leader in ODA. The precise allocations, which I think he is after, will be published…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is spot on, as ever. It is important that we push back on Daesh and the militia that are destabilising not just Iraq, but the region. Crucial to the long-term…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateThe hon. Gentleman raises a very important point. I am happy to write to him about the numbers. Obviously, anyone who returns from Syria or Iraq who poses a threat to the UK is…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman about the specific organisation to which he refers. In general in relation to Afghanistan, he will know that we are following the…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateAs I said in the answer I gave a few moments ago, one element of those things is part of the so-called JCPOA-plus considerations. More generally, with all our partners in the…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pay tribute to not only the RAF teams, but all our armed forces involved in the operations in Syria and Iraq for the critical work they do.…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateI totally agree with my hon. Friend that it is very difficult to see a scenario where Syria returns to peace, stability and some kind of normalcy with President Assad at the helm.04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend raises an excellent point. Whatever the perverse but romantic ideology Daesh spouts, it relies on cold, hard cash. That is why robbing and depriving it of…04 Mar 2021HANSARD Counter-Daesh UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We obviously focus on the material support—hygiene, water, sanitation and the like—but the scale of PTSD and wider mental health issues in…04 Mar 2021