The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
80
70
60
50
Baghdad
total
40
Basra
total
Kirkuk/Erbil
total
30
20
10
0
897.
Figure 3 shows
the relative contributions of the FCO and DFID in Baghdad
and
Basra:
•
FCO
personnel were concentrated in Baghdad (an average of 43,
against
10 in
Basra).
•
FCO numbers
in Baghdad doubled between March 2005 and June 2009,
with no change
in Basra.
•
DFID
deployed more personnel in Basra than Baghdad (an average of
30
in Basra
against 20 in Baghdad).
•
DFID
numbers in Baghdad and Basra fell steadily from mid‑2005, with
an
especially
marked dip in Basra when security deteriorated in
2006.
898.
The underlying
data are reproduced in Table 8 at the end of this
Section.
588
The Inquiry
has inserted a figure of four for Kirkuk/Erbil throughout the
period and assumed no increase
in staffing
during the move from Kirkuk to Erbil in January 2007. The FCO
source material refers to “five or
less” and
double counts for Kirkuk and Erbil between December 2007 and June
2008, long after Kirkuk
had
closed.
398