Jim Cunningham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-11-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his most recent estimate is of the number of UK military personnel currently involved in military operations in (a) Iraq and (b) Syria; and if he will make a statement.

Penny Mordaunt

We have over 850 military personnel committed to Operation SHADER (counter-ISIL operations in Iraq and Syria) based across the Middle East