Situation in the Gulf

First of all, those on the Government Benches wholeheartedly endorse what the shadow Minister sai...

I welcome what my right hon. Friend has said. There is no question but that it is the Iranians, n...

I always listen to my right hon. Friend very carefully on all defence matters, and I reassure him...

I wish the shadow Foreign Secretary a speedy recovery. I also congratulate the hon. Member for Ea...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. He gives me the chance to say that as a member of a ...

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that both the supply of oil to Syria and the capture of a Briti...

My right hon. Friend speaks with enormous experience on these matters because of his own backgrou...

Back in June, the Government’s view was that naval escorts for ships passing through the Strait o...

I can give the right hon. Gentleman a little bit of the answer to that, which is that it will not...

I entirely support what the Foreign Secretary has said and the actions that he intends to take. M...

On the first question, I will write to my right hon. Friend, because I do not have to hand the ex...

I hear what the Foreign Secretary has said about not linking the situation in Hormuz with that of...

May I take this opportunity to thank the hon. Lady for her very diligent campaigning for the rele...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I also thank my right hon. Friend the Member for ...

We have a plethora of distinguished former FCO Ministers on the Back Benches today. I am just gra...

First, may I pass on my best wishes to the shadow Foreign Secretary? As a cyclist myself, I know ...

I am pleased that the right hon. Gentleman is so pleased that none of his 11 parliamentary collea...

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson)...

It is right and typically gracious of the Foreign Secretary that he congratulated the hon. Member...

Does the Foreign Secretary accept that the taking of hostages and the flouting of international l...

My right hon. Friend is right: we did foresee that this could be one of the reactions from the Ir...

I share the Foreign Secretary’s concerns about the possibility that tensions will escalate and th...

Those were intelligent questions, and I will try to do justice to them. As I understand it, it is...

Iran is going unpunished, is it not?

Commendably brief—and the answer to that question is no, because I do not think that Iran can pos...

I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and for his service in his current role. I thank ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the generous way in which he asked his question. Precisely b...

The Kingdom of Bahrain generously hosts HMS Jufair, the base from which HMS Montrose and other ro...

I am very happy to do that. We have a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Bahrain, an...

I, too, warmly commend the work of the right hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Sir Alan Duncan)...

That is a very fair question. The truth is that we have to do that by being very frank with the T...

I am sure we all agree that our elite Royal Navy forces, our Royal Marines, which are known to be...

What my hon. Friend says is close to my heart, as the son of a naval officer, a phrase I have bee...

While the world witnesses the horror of this dangerous 3D, real-life game of battleships, may I r...

I commend the hon. Lady for staying in touch with the Iranian diaspora in this country, who remin...

Given that the risk of seizure was foreseen and that 95% of goods entering the UK do so by sea, d...

I might be straying slightly from my brief as Foreign Secretary, but it will not surprise my hon....

The United Kingdom is home to somewhere between 50,000 and 70,000 Iranian nationals and their imm...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman will let us and particularly the Home Office and the Ministry of H...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s prescient remarks in recent weeks about the need to expand our n...

I have just asked the Defence Secretary that very question, to which the answer is yes.

I agree with what the Secretary of State has said about the importance of freedom of navigation, ...

I hope that the hon. Gentleman will understand that we do not discuss rules of engagement publicl...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. I find the lack of resources slightly intriguing,...

May I reassure my hon. Friend that this is absolutely not about appeasing Iran? It is about tryin...

I thank the Secretary of State for his statement today and all the hard work that he has done and...

Absolutely. We want our allies in the Gulf to get involved in support of freedom of navigation, a...

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Secretary, who I thank, are well known for th...

I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend and thank him for his question. Just to add to my e...

There are justifiable concerns that if Iran resumes its nuclear programme, there will be an arms ...

Yes: continue to support the Iran nuclear deal, despite the pressure that it is evidently under; ...

What discussions is the Foreign Secretary having with our allies in the Gulf, who have been warni...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point about Qatar, because LNG is absolutely critical...

The Foreign Secretary mentioned Iran’s malign interventions in the region. While the House may be...

Yes, and the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. He speaks very powerfully of one country where w...

I thank the Foreign Secretary for his earlier answers to my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon a...

Hear, hear.

Yes, and I wish I had made more of my strong agreement with what my hon. Friend has just said in ...

Oh, very good! The Foreign Secretary is not that bothered about straying out of lane; he is going...

I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. I note that he said that while HMS Duncan has be...

I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his eagle eye in spotting that detail, but I want to r...

I commend the Foreign Secretary for his tone during his statement, but does he agree that this ac...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. People who have been studying the region for longer than I ha...

Iran and Iran alone is responsible for the illegal seizure of the Stena Impero, and the Foreign S...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When the Stena Impero was taken, HMS Montrose was actually on...

I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement and the actions the Government are taking t...

Absolutely. What we want is secure freedom of navigation for the thousands of ships that pass thr...