The Chilcot report in numbers

The report from the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's participation in the Iraq war is finally ready, more than five years later than planned.

Sir John Chilcot launching the inquiry.

Sir John Chilcot launching the Iraq Inquiry. Source: AAP

The Chilcot Iraq Inquiry report by the numbers:

- 7 years since the Chilcot Inquiry was launched, although the report of the inquiry's findings was originally intended to be ready for publication by the end of 2010.

- 2578 days between June 15, 2009, when the inquiry was announced by then-prime minister Gordon Brown and July 6, 2016, when the report will finally be seen by members of the public.

- 150,000 government documents believed to have been scrutinised for the report.

- STG10 million, the cost of the inquiry, according to recent estimates.

- 2 times Tony Blair, the prime minister at the time of the invasion, was called to give live evidence before the inquiry.

- 3 foreign secretaries to have been in the post since the inquiry was launched - David Miliband under Brown, and William Hague and Philip Hammond under David Cameron.

- 179 - UK fatalities during the Iraq war, including 47 who died from roadside bombs and IEDs.

- 12 volumes of the report.

- 2.6 million words estimated to be included in the report.

- STG767 the cost of ordering a copy of the report. Families of those killed in the war will have the costs waived having originally been told they would have to pay for it.


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Published 6 July 2016 5:10pm
Updated 6 July 2016 7:36pm
Source: AAP


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