Written question asked by David Lidington (Conservative) on Wednesday, 4 November 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 November 2009. It was answered by Ivan Lewis (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 on behalf of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Iraq: Armed Conflict

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many former Iraqi locally employed civilians have (a) accepted financial payments from the UK Government and (b) had their applications for assistance under the scheme rejected.

Answer: 284 former locally engaged staff have opted for financial payments and 590 have had their applications rejected. The main reasons for the rejections were that the applicants had not been employed for the requisite twelve months' period; had not been employed as interpreters/translators or in similarly skilled or professional roles necessitating the regular use of written or spoken English; or had not been employed directly by the Government.

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