10.1 |
Reconstruction: March 2003 to June 2004
1.
Section 10
addresses the UK contribution to humanitarian assistance
and
reconstruction
in Iraq between 2003 and 2009:
•
This
Section (10.1) covers the period between March 2003 and the end of
the
Occupation
of Iraq in June 2004.
•
Section
10.2 continues the story from July 2004 to 2009.
2.
Sections 10.1
and 10.2 consider:
•
humanitarian
assistance;
•
the
development and implementation of UK reconstruction policy,
strategy
and
plans;
•
the UK’s
engagement with the US on reconstruction, including with the
US-led
Office of
Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and the
Coalition
Provisional
Authority (CPA); and
•
the UK’s
engagement with successive Iraqi governments on
reconstruction.
3.
Section 10.3
addresses five issues in more detail:
•
UK policy
on Iraq’s oil and oil revenues;
•
the
Government’s support for UK business in securing reconstruction
contracts;
•
debt
relief;
•
asylum;
and
•
reform of
the Government’s approach to post-conflict reconstruction
and
stabilisation.
4.
Those issues
are addressed separately from the main reconstruction narrative,
in
order to
provide a clearer account of the development of the UK’s
engagement.
5.
This Section
does not consider:
•
planning
and preparing to provide humanitarian assistance and
reconstruction,
which is
addressed in Sections 6.4 and 6.5;
•
the
financial and human resources available for post-conflict
reconstruction,
addressed
in Sections 13 and 15 respectively;
•
de-Ba’athification
and Security Sector Reform (SSR), addressed in Sections
11
and 12
respectively; and
•
wider UK
policy towards Iraq in the post-conflict period, addressed in
Section 9.
6.
During the
period covered by the Inquiry, the Government used a number of
different
terms to
describe post-conflict activity in Iraq, including
“reconstruction”. It did not
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