Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh on 2016-03-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of Government spending on Syria has been spent on (a) military action and (b) the provision of humanitarian aid.

Penny Mordaunt

It is not possible to separately identify the costs of military action in Syria. However, from August 2014, the net additional costs of counter-Daesh activity in Iraq and Syria have been £280 million. Since February 2012, the UK has pledged over £2.3 billion in response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.