Iraq: Detainees

(asked on 14th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2020 to Question 70307 on Ministry of Defence: Iraq Detainees, how much his Department has agreed to pay to date in relation to those outstanding 414 civil claims.


Answered by
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Johnny Mercer
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
This question was answered on 19th October 2020

Details of 330 of the 1,000 civil claims where an agreement with the claimant in terms of damages to be paid to the claimant, notwithstanding the legal costs that may not yet have been agreed and paid, are already in the public domain following responses provided to FOI requests received and the High Court judgment of December 2017 relating to the trials of the four lead claims in the Iraqi Civilian Litigation (ICL). Discussions between the claimants' solicitors and departmental officials with regard to the resolution of the outstanding remaining claims in the ICL have continued since early 2018, but the terms of these discussions and any outcomes remain the subject of a confidentiality agreement and we are therefore unable to provide a detailed and complete response to this question at this time. However, although the confidentiality agreement remains extant, it is hoped that we will be in a position to provide further information in relation to the remaining outstanding claims in the ICL in the near future.

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