Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government with how many Iraqi interpreters the armed forces contracted during military operations in Iraq in each year between 2003 and 2009.
The total number of Iraqi interpreters recruited by the Armed Forces during Military operations in Iraq from 2003 to 2009 is 1,628. The following table shows this figure broken down by each year:
Year | No. of Interpreters |
2003 | 347 |
2004 | 426 |
2005 | 499 |
2006 | 209 |
2007 | 78 |
2008 | 69 |
2009 | 0 |