Oral QuestionDepartment for International Trade

“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 25 June 2018Answered: 28 June 2018

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for International Trade

Answer from Hansard

John Healey

The hon. Gentleman is not correct in saying that the troops are there to monitor the ceasefire. A small handful of British forces personnel have been deployed to the Civil-Military Co-ordination Centre at the request of the US, and it is the US that is leading that work.