10.1 |
Reconstruction: March 2003 to June 2004
1113.
Section 13.1
describes how the UK Government allocated funds for
humanitarian
assistance
and reconstruction before and during the Occupation. The
allocations were:
•
In March
2003, the MOD ear-marked £10m for QIPs.
•
In March
2003, the Treasury agreed that the MOD could spend up to £30m
on
humanitarian
operations in the UK’s AO.
•
By the end
of March 2003, DFID had allocated a total of £210m to
humanitarian
relief in
Iraq in 2002/03 and 2003/04. In the event, the humanitarian
crisis
that had
been feared did not materialise. By May, DFID had made
available
the
uncommitted balance of that funding – some £90m – for “recovery
and
reconstruction”.
•
On 9 April
2003, Mr Brown announced that he had set aside an
additional
US$100m
(£60m) to “back up the UN and the work of reconstruction
and
•
In August
2003, Ministers agreed an Iraq Strategy within the Global
Conflict
Prevention
Pool (GCPP) with an allocation of £7.5m in 2003/04 and in
2004/05.
1114.
Section 13.1
(Table 10) sets out UK expenditure on humanitarian assistance
and
development
assistance (reconstruction) by UK financial year (1 April to 31
March). The
UK
spent:
•
£110m on
humanitarian assistance in 2003/04 (and £19m in 2002/03, to
enable
humanitarian
agencies to prepare to respond to a humanitarian crisis in
Iraq);
•
£99m on
development assistance in 2003/04; in addition, the UK’s
“imputed
share” of
development expenditure by multilateral organisations to which
it
contributed
was £11m; and
•
£5m from
the GCPP.
1115.
Departments
have been unable to disaggregate figures for their support for
the
ORHA and
the CPA from their total expenditure in Iraq.
1116.
The Inquiry
estimates that the UK provided at least £60m,
comprising:
•
£29.2m
secured by the FCO from the Treasury Reserve to support the
CPA.653
The FCO
cannot provide a figure for their (non-Reserve) support for
ORHA/CPA.
652
House of
Commons, Official
Report, 9 April
2003, columns 271-288.
653
Letter
Cabinet Office [junior official] to Iraq Inquiry [junior official],
1 December 2011, ‘Iraq Inquiry:
Funding’.
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