Clive Lewis – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Clive Lewis on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether armed forces personnel have received training for deployment to Syria.

Penny Mordaunt

Armed Forces personnel deploying on Operation SHADER – the name of the UK contribution to operations to counter ISIL – receive pre-deployment training appropriate to their role but are not deployed to Syria.