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15.1 | Civilian personnel
finance;
immigration and customs;
infrastructure and infrastructure security;
civil affairs;
human rights;
justice;
media policy and regulation;
gender;
youth and sport; and
civic education.
He described the spread of functions in Basra as “even wider”, given the UK’s “overall
responsibility” there.
254.  Sir Michael explained that the extra staff expected to deploy between January and
June were likely to include:
30 more secondees to CPA(South);
a DoH team for CPA(South) and the southern governorates;
“political process consultants”; and
FCO staff setting up new diplomatic posts in Baghdad and Basra.
255.  Sir Michael anticipated that numbers should fall to between 70 and 80 after
the transfer of sovereignty, spread across the British Embassy Baghdad, the British
Embassy Office Basra and “possibly” other regional offices. He warned that FCO human
and financial resources were stretched, but concluded that plans for the next
six months were “sensible – and manageable as long as the necessary resources
are available”.
256.  Sir Michael Jay also updated Permanent Secretaries on security and duty of care
on 14 January:
“We would not normally deploy civilian staff to an area as dangerous as Iraq now is.
But Treasury Solicitors have confirmed to the Cabinet Office that we are complying
with our duty of care if (i) we take all reasonable measures to mitigate risk, at least
on a par with other governments, (ii) staff are volunteers, and we put no pressure
on them to take up posts in Iraq, and (iii) we deploy staff for good reason. We are
confident we are fulfilling these requirements.”
257.  On mitigation of the security risk, Sir Michael explained:
“The CPA itself is responsible for CPA staff security. But our guidelines and
additional security assets bring security for British staff up to levels which we believe
are required to allow staff to do their jobs while mitigating the risk to an acceptable
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