Oral Evidence by Date

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Week 10

Date Subject/RoleWitnesses
8 February 2010 Senior British Military Representative in Iraq, 2004 General Sir John McColl
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2001 - 2006 Rt Hon Jack Straw MP

Week 9

Date Subject/RoleWitnesses
1 February 2010 Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Equipment) 2002 – August 2003
Chief of the Air Staff, August 2003 – April 2006
Chief of the Defence Staff, August 2006 - 2009		 Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup
Chief of the General Staff, 2001 – Feb 2003
Chief of the Defence Staff, May 2003 – April 2006		 Rt Hon General the Lord Walker of Aldringham
2 February 2010 International Development Secretary, 2001 – 2003 Rt Hon Clare Short MP
International Development Secretary, 2003 – 2007 Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP
Permanent Secretary, FCO, 2006 - 2009 Sir Peter Ricketts
3 February 2010 Permanent Secretary, MOD, 2001 - 2005 Sir Kevin Tebbit
Secretary of State for Defence, 2005 - 2006 Rt Hon Dr John Reid MP
Prime Minister's Special Envoy to Iraq, 2003 - 2009 Rt Hon Ann Clwyd MP

Week 8

Date Subject/RoleWitnesses
25 January 2010 Secretary of State for Defence, May 2006 – Oct 2008 Rt Hon Des Browne MP
Secretary of State for Defence, Oct 2008 – June 2009 Rt Hon John Hutton MP
26 January 2010 Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2001 – 2006 Sir Michael Wood
Legal Secretary to the Law Officers, 2001 - 2004 David Brummell
Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2001 – 2003 Elizabeth Wilmshurst
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, May 2006 – June 2007 Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP
27 January 2010 Attorney General, June 2001 – June 2007 Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith QC
29 January 2010 Prime Minister, 2001 – June 2007 Rt Hon Tony Blair

Week 7

Date Subject/RoleWitnesses
18 January 2010 Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, 2001 - 2007 Jonathan Powell
19 January 2010 Secretary of State for Defence, 2001 - 2005 Rt Hon. Geoffrey Hoon
20 January 2010 Director General Political, FCO, 2007 - 2009 Mark Lyall-Grant
Permanent Secretary Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator, 2002 - 2005 Sir David Omand
21 January 2010 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2001 - 2006 Rt Hon. Jack Straw
22 January 2010 Permanent Secretary, DFID, 2002 - 2007 Sir Suma Chakrabarti
Permanent Secretary, HMT, 2006 - 2009 Sir Nicholas Macpherson

Week 6

Date Subject/RoleWitnesses
11 January 2010 The view from Basra - July 2006 – January 2007 Lieutenant General Sir Richard Shirreff
The view from Basra - January – August 2007 Major General Jonathan Shaw
12 January 2010 Director of Communications and Strategy to the Prime Minister, 2001 – 2003 Alastair Campbell
13 January 2010 Permanent Secretary, DFID, 2008 - 2009 Nemat Shafik
Cabinet Secretary, 2002 – 2005 Lord Turnbull
15 January 2010 General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division South East, Aug 2007 – Feb 2008 Major General Graham Binns

Chief Joint Operations Aug 2001-Jul 2004

General Sir John Reith (private session)

Week 5

Date SubjectWitnesses
05 January 2010 Baghdad 2005 - 2006 Sir William Patey
The view from Baghdad 2005 – 2006; the military perspective from London 2006 - 2007 General Sir Nicholas Houghton and Vice Admiral Charles Style
Policy Decisions 2007 - 2009 Simon McDonald
06 January 2010 Policy Decisions 2007 - 2009 General Sir Peter Wall and Jon Day
Policy Decisions 2007 - 2009 Mark Lowcock
Baghdad 2007 – 2009 Christopher Prentice
07 January 2010 Basra: Operation Charge of the Knights Lieutenant General Barney White-Spunner
Basra: Developments after the Charge of the Knights Nigel Haywood and Keith Mackiggan
08 January 2010 Negotiating the UK military exit Peter Watkins
UK's policy towards Iraq in 2009 John Jenkins and Frank Baker

Week 4

Date SubjectWitnesses
14 December 2009 Views from Baghdad 2004 – 2005 Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely & Lt Gen Robin Brims
Basra and the South after the invasion Lt Gen Jonathon Riley & Gen Sir Peter Wall
15 December 2009
Baghdad at the time of the Coalition Provisional Authority Sir Jeremy Greenstock
Views from Basra 2004 - 2006 Lt Gen William Rollo and Lt Gen John Cooper
16 December 2009 The view from London and Baghdad Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry
The view from Whitehall Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Sir John Sawers and Desmond Bowen
17 December 2009 Promoting Iraq’s recovery and growth after the initial invasion Jim Drummond, Martin Dinham & Stephen Pickford

Week 3

Date SubjectWitnesses
07 December 2009 Baghdad 2004 - 2005 Edward Chaplin
Post Invasion Iraq: The planning and the reality after the invasion Maj Gen Tim Cross
Desmond Bowen
08 December 2009 Post Invasion Iraq: The planning and the reality after the invasion Sir Suma Chakrabarti
Dominick Chilcott
Intelligence Sir John Scarlett
The Military Invasion Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burridge & Lt Gen Robin Brims
09 December 2009  Law, Order and Security in the aftermath Lt Gen Sir Frederick Viggers & Lt Gen Andrew Figgures
Basra and the South 2003 - 2004 Sir Hilary Synnott, Lt Gen Lamb & Maj Gen Andrew Stewart
Baghdad 2006 - 2007 Lt Gen Sir Graeme Lamb
10 December 2009 No10 perspective in 2001; the early days of the Coalition Provisional Authority Sir John Sawers

Week 2

Date SubjectWitnesses
30 November 2009 UK policy towards Iraq 2001 - 2003 David Manning
01 December 2009 UK policy towards Iraq 2001 - 2003 Edward Chaplin & Sir Peter Ricketts
03 December 2009 Military Planning Kevin Tebbit & Michael Boyce
04 December 2009 Military Planning Lt General Sir Anthony Pigott, David Wilson
The view from London and Baghdad 2004-2007 Dominic Asquith

Week 1

Date SubjectWitnesses
24 November 2009
 UK Policy towards Iraq in 2001

Simon Webb, Sir Peter Ricketts, William Patey and Michael Wood

25 November 2009
Weapons of mass destruction
 Tim Dowse and William Ehrman
26 November 2009 The Transatlantic Relationship Christopher Meyer
27 November 2009  Developments in the United Nations Jeremy Greenstock