Question follow-through · 57645
Israel: Military Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has withheld any Royal Air Force surveillance information from the Israeli government in the last two years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has withheld any Royal Air Force surveillance information from the Israeli government in the last two years.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2025
Answer published
Since early December 2023, the Ministry of Defence have conducted unarmed surveillance flights over Gaza for the sole purpose of locating hostages. Only information related to hostage rescue can be passed to the relevant authority, and is only passed if w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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