Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations

(asked on 17th November 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 24th November 2015

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


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