Nicholas Soames – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the costs of the (a) Baha Moussa inquiry and (b) Al-Sweady inquiry are classified by his Department as being operational and reclaimable from the Treasury Special Reserve.

Mr Mark Francois

The costs of the Baha Mousa and Al-Sweady inquiries were not deemed by the Department to be true net additional costs associated with activity to support specifically authorised operations and were not reclaimed from the Treasury Special Reserve.