Written question asked by Lord Harper (Conservative) on Tuesday, 5 December 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 7 December 2006. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Monday, 11 December 2006 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Armed Forces: Casualty Reporting

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps his Department takes to make publicly available information on the number of British (a) casualties and (b) fatalities incurred in (i) Iraq and (ii) Afghanistan since the commencement of operations.

Answer: The MOD is committed to openly publishing statistics on the number of service casualties on operations. Information on casualties and fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan is published on the MOD website:"http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets"Data is published for Iraq since the commencement of operations in March 2003 and for Afghanistan since 1 January 2006. Work is ongoing to ascertain whether casualty data for Afghanistan pre-2006 is sufficiently robust to enable figures to be published in the same format as for Iraq; I will write to inform the hon. Member when this work is complete. Casualty data on the MOD website is updated on a two weekly basis, two weeks in arrears.Details of fatalities are released to the media following an incident and updates are made to the website above, which has lists of UK military fatalities from both theatres.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 105717; 454 c880-1W;454 c884-5W
Session: 2006-07
Related items: Deposited Paper DEP 07/985
Wednesday, 4 April 2007
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Subjects: Iraq Peacekeeping operations Afghanistan
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