Introduction ...................................................................................................................
198
The
transition from Occupation to an Iraqi
Government ...............................................
199
Efforts to
accelerate the pace of
reconstruction ............................................................
200
Reconstruction
in areas regained from insurgent control, and
Fallujah .................. 213
Agreement
on debt relief for
Iraq ............................................................................
224
Taking the
strain in the South, early
2005 .....................................................................
224
DFID
reduces its budget for Iraq for
2005/06 .........................................................
229
Priorities
for
2005 ....................................................................................................
231
DFID
reviews its Interim Country Assistance
Plan ..................................................
241
Preparing
for transition to Iraqi control in the
South ......................................................
257
Responding
to the new US Clear-Hold-Build
strategy ............................................
259
Preparing
for the transfer of security responsibility in Maysan
and Muthanna ....... 276
Turning
Basra
around .............................................................................................
285
UK plans
for 2007, and the US
surge .....................................................................
303
Major
General Shirreff’s proposal for a military-led UK effort in
the South ............. 306
Preparing
for Provincial Iraqi Control in
Basra ........................................................
309
Responding
to the displacement
crisis ...................................................................
319
Reconstruction
under Mr Gordon Brown’s
Premiership ................................................
323
Charge of
the Knights, March
2008 ..............................................................................
343
Transition
to a normal bilateral relationship with
Iraq ....................................................
359
Long-Term
Strategy for Iraq, February
2009 ..........................................................
364
Resources
available for
reconstruction .........................................................................
367
Reflections
on the impact of the UK’s reconstruction effort ..........................................
369
Key
economic and social
indicators ........................................................................
371
197