Written question asked by Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) on Thursday, 20 January 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 27 January 2005. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Thursday, 27 January 2005 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Ministry of Defence

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons statistics on the numbers of Armed Service Personnel injured in action in Iraq each month were not collected before August 2004. - (Holding answer 25 January 2005).

Answer: Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons statistics on the numbers of Armed Service Personnel injured in action in Iraq each month were not collected before August 2004. [211024] Mr. Ingram: [holding answer 25 January 2005]: The Ministry of Defence statistics held centrally on personnel medically evacuated since the beginning of Operation Telic are not broken down into combat and non-combat injuries prior to August 2004. That information was only recorded by individual units, and it is not available in electronic format. The information that was collected centrally was clinical information, in the form of a database of all those medically evacuated, which does not provide a breakdown by cause.

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