Written question asked by Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) on Tuesday, 17 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 January 2006. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Iraq

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his latest estimate is of the total number of weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq since March 2003; and how many of these were classified as (a) nuclear, (b) chemical and (c) biological.

Answer: The United Kingdom Government have accepted the conclusions of the Iraq Survey Group's search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, published in Charles Duelfer's Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI of September 2004 and finalised in March 2005. The report is available to the public on the CIA website. This report provided the most authoritative assessment on Iraq WMD and concluded that no WMD of military significance were found.However, as this report predicted, numbers of degraded pre-1991 chemical weapons continue to be found in Iraq and these are being safely disposed of.

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