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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
Introduction
1.  Section 10 addresses the UK contribution to humanitarian assistance and
reconstruction in Iraq between 2003 and 2009:
• Section 10.1 covers the period between March 2003 and the end of the
Occupation of Iraq in June 2004.
• Section 10.2 continues the story from July 2004 to July 2009.
2.  Sections 10.1 and 10.2 consider:
• humanitarian assistance;
• the development and implementation of UK reconstruction policy, strategy
and plans;
• the UK’s engagement with the US on reconstruction, including with the US-led
Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and the Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA); and
• the UK’s engagement with successive Iraqi governments on reconstruction.
3.  Section 10.3 addresses five issues in more detail:
• UK policy on Iraq’s oil and oil revenues;
• the Government’s support for UK business in securing reconstruction contracts;
• debt relief;
• asylum; and
• reform of the Government’s approach to post-conflict reconstruction and
stabilisation.
4.  Those issues are addressed separately from the main reconstruction narrative, in
order to provide a clearer account of the development of the UK’s engagement.
5.  This Section does not consider:
• planning and preparing to provide humanitarian assistance and reconstruction,
which is addressed in Sections 6.4 and 6.5;
• the financial and human resources available for post-conflict reconstruction,
addressed in Sections 13 and 15 respectively;
• de-Ba’athification and Security Sector Reform (SSR), addressed in Sections 11
and 12 respectively; and
• wider UK policy towards Iraq in the post-conflict period, addressed in Section 9.
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