Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2020 to Question 70307 on Ministry of Defence: Iraq Detainees, how many of the judicial claims resolved in the claimant’s favour, either by (a) settlement or (b) at a final hearing.

As explained in the answer to Question 70307, only a few of the approximately 1,400 judicial reviews brought on behalf of Iraqi nationals were resolved by the time Public Interest Lawyers went into administration in 2016. None were settled by the Ministry of Defence.

The Courts have only handed down judgments, following hearings, in nine cases (although some of these proceedings covered multiple complainants). Of these, six were decided in the complainants' favour; one was decided wholly in favour of the Ministry of Defence; and in the remaining two cases, the complainants won certain issues and the Ministry of Defence others.