Bob Stewart – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bob Stewart on 2016-06-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide field surgical teams for the Peshmerga Regional Government.

Penny Mordaunt

The UK keeps its contribution to the Global Counter-Daesh Coalition in Iraq (including the Kurdish region) under review with wider Coalition partners, but has no plans to deploy a field hospital to the region. Any such deployment would need to be carefully balanced against medical commitments to current and future planned operations.