Written question asked by Jim Cunningham (Labour) on Friday, 21 October 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 25 October 2016. It was answered by Mike Penning (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 October 2016 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Iraq: Military Intervention

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) missions flown and (b) air strikes the armed forces have conducted within Iraqi territory in each of the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

From 1 October 2015 to 25 October 2016 the UK conducted 1,991 combat missions over Iraq. Broken down by month these are:

	Typhoon FGR4	Tornado GR4	Reaper MQ9
2015
October	0	45	61
November	0	52	62
December	47	72	56
2016
January	48	72	74
February	49	73	54
March	55	53	55
April	48	46	56
May	51	52	66
June	50	46	71
July	51	44	66
August	39	46	61
September	33	44	63
October	41	38	51
Total	512	683	796

During 1 October 2015 - 25 October 2016 the UK has conducted a total of 784 airstrikes within Iraqi territory. These are detailed as follows:

2015
October	18
November	57
December	86
2016
January	97
February	60
March	67
April	70
May	69
June	77
July	44
August	42
September	51
October	46
Total	784

These strike numbers are constantly reviewed and updated by the Coalition to ensure records are as complete and as accurate as possible. As such, past and future statements regarding statistics may differ to those given here.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 49740
Session: 2016-17
Subjects: Iraq Military intervention
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Iraq: Military Intervention

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