13.1 |
Resources
(medical,
disability and social security); other social costs; military cost
adjustments;
interest on
debt incurred; and other macroeconomic costs.
10.
Indirect costs
include the costs of the inquiries that have been established
to
investigate
aspects of the UK’s intervention in Iraq. Those
include:
•
The
Al‑Sweady Public Inquiry, which reported in December 2014, cost
£25m.8
•
The Baha
Mousa Public Inquiry, which reported in September 2011, cost
£13m.9
•
The cost of
the Iraq Inquiry, which is published on the Inquiry’s
website.
•
The Iraq
Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), which was established in 2010,
has
a budget
of £57.2m up to the end of 2019.10
11.
The US
Congress appropriated US$686bn for operations in Iraq between the
US
fiscal
years 200211
and
2009.12
That
comprised:
•
US$646bn
(94 percent) for the US Department of Defense;
•
US$36bn
(five percent) for the US Department of State and the US Agency
for
International
Development (USAID); and
•
US$4bn (one
percent) for the Department of Veterans Administration
(DVA).
12.
US Department
of Defense figures included costs associated with the
Commanders
Emergency
Response Program (CERPs) and the Iraq Security Forces Fund
(ISFF).
US Department
of State and USAID figures included the cost of reconstruction,
foreign
aid
programmes, and embassy operation and construction. DVA costs
included medical
programmes
for Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans.
13.
There were
three main sources of UK funding for the UK’s operations in
Iraq:
•
departments’
baseline spending settlements;
•
the Reserve
(including the Special Reserve); and
•
inter-departmental
funds (the Global Conflict Prevention Pool, the Conflict
Pool
and the
Stabilisation Aid Fund).13
8
Al‑Sweady
Public Inquiry website, Inquiry
Expenditure and Costs. The costs
of some Core Participants
and
witnesses were met directly by the MOD; those costs are not
included in this figure.
9
Baha Mousa
Public Inquiry website, Inquiry
Expenditure. The costs
of some Core Participants were met
directly by
the MOD; those costs are not included in this figure.
10
House of
Commons Library, Briefing Paper Number 7478, 22 January
2016, Iraq
Historic Allegations
Team.
11
The US
fiscal year runs from 1 October to 30 September. US fiscal year
2002 began on 1 October 2001
and ended
on 30 September 2002.
12
Congressional
Research Service Report, 29 March 2011, The Cost of
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other
Global War
on Terror Operations since 9/11.
13
Statement
Macpherson, 15 January 2010, pages 1-2.
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