Ministerial statement on Thursday, 4 March 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Dominic Raab.

Counter-Daesh Update

Statement on the campaign against Daesh.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 690 cc405-422
Session: 2019-21
Department: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: Dominic Raab | 690 cc406-9 (Link to this contribution)
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on our ongoing campaign to counter ...; Lisa Nandy | 690 cc409-410 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Foreign Secretary for advance sight of the statement. I hope this marks the return to...; Dominic Raab | 690 cc410-1 (Link to this contribution)
May I first thank the hon. Lady for her support for the military action we are taking against Dae...; Tom Tugendhat | 690 cc411-2 (Link to this contribution)
I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement and update today. He of all people knows ver...; Dominic Raab | 690 c412 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He is right to say that as wel...; Alyn Smith | 690 c412 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, thank the Foreign Secretary for advance sight of his statement. I stress that the Scottis...; Dominic Raab | 690 c413 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support and for the forensic contributions that he makes on th...; Julian Lewis | 690 c413 (Link to this contribution)
Now that the caliphate has been overthrown, Daesh reverts to a more traditional form of terrorism...; Dominic Raab | 690 c413 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the other Select Committee—the Intelligence and Securi...; Layla Moran | 690 c413 (Link to this contribution)
May I start by thanking our armed forces for all they do in the fight against Daesh? Effective co...; Dominic Raab | 690 c413 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the hon. Lady for her support for the military action we are taking. She is right to emph...; Laura Farris | 690 c414 (Link to this contribution)
I know my right hon. Friend will join me in congratulating Karim Khan on his appointment as chief...; Dominic Raab | 690 c414 (Link to this contribution)
I thank my hon. Friend and, as she says, I warmly welcome the international community’s election ...; Jim Shannon | 690 c414 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and the Secretary of State and the Government f...; Dominic Raab | 690 c414 (Link to this contribution)
I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman. We have played a leading role in the global coalition, w...; Bob Stewart | 690 c414 (Link to this contribution)
As my right hon. Friend has already outlined, the last airstrike against Daesh took place on 11 F...; Dominic Raab | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pay tribute to not only the RAF teams, but all our armed fo...; Jonathan Edwards | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
On Tuesday, the Secretary of State and I engaged in debate about future policy in Afghanistan. On...; Dominic Raab | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman about the specific organisation to which he refers. In ...; Marco Longhi | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
I thank all our armed forces for the work they do. Being a member of the armed forces parliamenta...; Dominic Raab | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is spot on, as ever. It is important that we push back on Daesh and the militia th...; Martyn Day | 690 c415 (Link to this contribution)
In addition to winning the military war against Daesh, we must ensure that we win the peace, so i...; Dominic Raab | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I understand the hon. Gentleman’s concern. We are a leader in ODA, and we will remain a leader in...; Christian Wakeford | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I applaud the Government’s continuing commitment to countering Daesh. However, Daesh is not the o...; Dominic Raab | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. He will know that we proscribe the entirety of Hezbollah as a terrorist ...; Diana Johnson | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
How many of the 900 United Kingdom citizens to whom my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan (Lisa Nan...; Dominic Raab | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
I am happy to write to the right hon. Lady with the specific numbers that we have, but as I have ...; Philip Hollobone | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
Médecins sans Frontières, the wonderful medical charity, has just announced that one of its staff...; Dominic Raab | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is not just a strategic danger; we also have to think of t...; Tony Lloyd | 690 c416 (Link to this contribution)
The Foreign Secretary is entitled to ask for and get the support for the military operations agai...; Dominic Raab | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
I agree with the hon. Gentleman: there is a whole range of international collaboration that goes ...; Robert Largan | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the statement and the Government’s commitment to tackle the lingering threat of Daesh. ...; Dominic Raab | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We obviously focus on the material support—hygiene, water, sa...; Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
The extremist and evil ideology of ISIS, or Daesh, is diabolical and it needs to be dealt with. I...; Dominic Raab | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman asks thankfully an excellent question. Certainly the curtailment of the territ...; Felicity Buchan | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to crack down on the spread of Daesh’s influence across...; Dominic Raab | 690 c417 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend raises an excellent point. Whatever the perverse but romantic ideology Daesh spout...; Alistair Carmichael | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
The Foreign Secretary is absolutely right that Daesh poses a global threat and we absolutely must...; Dominic Raab | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
We are still a world-leading donor in relation to Yemen. We have remained and will remain between...; Mike Wood | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
The Foreign Secretary is absolutely right that Daesh’s operations pose a threat not only to the p...; Dominic Raab | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right and, as I have expressed in public statements recently, we have supported...; Patrick Grady | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
Pope Francis is due to visit Iraq in the coming days. It is the first visit of a pope in the coun...; Dominic Raab | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman raises a really important point. Of course, the UK is a member of the global a...; Gagan Mohindra | 690 c418 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and I associate myself with the comments made abo...; Dominic Raab | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is important that we have a team effort in the struggl...; Lord McCabe | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
Notwithstanding the threat from Daesh, Iran’s support for terrorist activity across the region an...; Dominic Raab | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right; that is a key aspect of addressing and dealing with Iran....; John Howell | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is so right to stress that the threat of Daesh is not dead; I have seen for ...; Dominic Raab | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
I totally agree with my hon. Friend that it is very difficult to see a scenario where Syria retur...; Khalid Mahmood | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
I also pay tribute to all our armed forces, who are doing some brave work in the region. The Secr...; Dominic Raab | 690 c419 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman raises a very important point. I am happy to write to him about the numbers. O...; Scott Benton | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome this statement on the UK’s continuing commitment to defeat groups such as Daesh and the...; Dominic Raab | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
As I said in the answer I gave a few moments ago, one element of those things is part of the so-c...; Feryal Clark | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
Thousands of Kurdish men and women died fighting Daesh and defeated them in many parts of norther...; Dominic Raab | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
Of course, Turkey has received a significant number of refugees itself. I can tell the hon. Lady ...; Bob Blackman | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend clearly understands that we have a huge number of UK citizens who have gone ...; Dominic Raab | 690 c420 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We want to see accountability and we want to see a deterrent ...; Stephen Farry | 690 c421 (Link to this contribution)
I join in the commendation of many of the actions of the UK Government and, of course, our armed ...; Dominic Raab | 690 c421 (Link to this contribution)
That is an interesting idea. Whether something under the auspices of the UN as a whole would be t...; Tobias Ellwood | 690 cc421-2 (Link to this contribution)
Daesh is far from defeated—they are regrouping—but I join the Foreign Secretary in commending the...; Dominic Raab | 690 c422 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend, who chairs the Defence Committee, asked four or five questions in one; I wa...; Nigel Evans | 690 c422 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Foreign Secretary for making his statement and am extremely grateful for his respondi...
Subjects: Counter-terrorism Armed conflict Humanitarian aid Iraq Politics and government Syria Military intervention Military aid Propaganda Islamic State
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Counter-Daesh Update

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