The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
887.
Excluding 27
members of UK military close protection teams and the CPA
Regional
Co‑ordinator
in Erbil, who was not a member of a GT, the total number of
personnel
deployed to
the CPA GTs was 23:584
five in the
Basra GT and 18 elsewhere.
888.
Most of the 23
were from the MOD (a mix of civilian and military personnel),
DFID
and the
FCO. The Governorate Co‑ordinator for Dhi Qar was from the
Department for
Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
889.
There is no
continuous set of data for the number of civilians deployed during
the
CPA period
by UK government departments and organisations other than the FCO,
the
MOD and
DFID.
890.
A snapshot
produced for the AHMGIR on 22 May 2003 listed 13
organisations
other than
the FCO, MOD and DFID with staff seconded to ORHA, and
11 “miscellaneous”
secondees:
MOD
13
DFID
8
FCO
6
Department
of Health (DoH)
6
Department
of Trade and Industry (DTI)
5
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Communications Information Centre (CIC)
2
British
Council
1
Department
of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
1
HM Customs
and Excise (HMCE)
1
HM Treasury
(HMT)
1
Highways
Agency
1
Lord
Chancellor’s Department (LCD)
1
Maritime
and Coastguard Agency
1
Northern
Ireland Office (NIO)
1
Office of
the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM)
1
Office of
Telecommunications (Oftel)
1
Miscellaneous
11
584
Sir Michael
Jay quoted a figure of 21 personnel deployed to the GTs in his
update for Permanent
Secretaries
on 14 January 2004. This is the figure quoted in Table
4.
585 Annotated
Agenda, 22 May 2003, Ad Hoc Group on Iraq Rehabilitation meeting,
‘Annex C:
UK
Secondees to ORHA’.
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