The Lord Bishop of Coventry – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Lord Bishop of Coventry on 2015-12-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the financial cost to date of UK air strikes against Daesh in Iraq.

Earl Howe

It is not possible to separate out the costs of military action in Iraq from that of wider counter-Daesh operations due to the inter-related nature of UK military activity. The net additional cost of UK counter-Daesh operations to date is approximately £150 million. This includes around £80 million for military operations between August 2014 – 31 March 2015 and a net additional cost to date in this financial year of around £70 million.