The United Kingdom has been clear in calling for, urgently, a need to establish the facts of what happened, including why such a volume of live fire was used. We are supportive of an independent, transparent investigation.

Alistair Burt

Alistair James Hendrie Burt (born 25 May 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Bedfordshire in 2001 and served as the MP for his native Bury North in Greater Manchester from 1983 until 1997. Burt was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State then Minister of State at the Department of Social Security from 1992 to 1997, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2010 to 2013. Burt was Minister of State at the Department of Health from May 2015 to July 2016.

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