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Written question asked by Ann Winterton (Conservative) on Monday, 15 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 17 December 2008. It was answered by Lord Hutton of Furness (Labour) on Monday, 12 January 2009 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.


Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many attacks of each type have been launched against UK armed forces bases in southern Iraq since 1 May 2003.
Answer

The following table contains details of all reported attacks against multi-national force bases in MND(SE) since the period requested. To distinguish between attacks against UK bases and those of other coalition partners would incur disproportionate costs.

Total number of reported attacks¹
2003 39
2004 732
2005 111
2006 820
2007 1,374
2008 108
¹ The data cut-off point is 18 December 2008.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
486 c103W; 245227
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Iraq Peacekeeping operations
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk