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15.1 | Civilian personnel
Figure 3: FCO and DFID deployments to Baghdad and Basra, 2004‑2009
70
60
50
FCO to Baghdad
40 DFID to Baghdad
30
FCO to Basra
DFID to Basra
20
10
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899.  There is no continuous set of data for civilians deployed by other departments or
organisations during the post‑CPA period.
900.  In November 2004, Mr Straw sent details of all staff present at the British Embassy
Baghdad and the British Embassy Offices Basra and Kirkuk on 24 October 2004 to the
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee.589
901.  The list of staff, reproduced in full below, includes those deployed by the FCO,
the MOD, DFID and other government departments and organisations. It is the most
comprehensive record seen by the Inquiry of post‑CPA civilian staff numbers.590
589  Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Minutes of Evidence, 24 March 2005, Letter to the Chairman of the
Committee from the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2 November 2004.
590  The staff list records officials visiting the Embassy and the Embassy Offices on a single day in October
2004. It does not include those on leave.
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