§ Lord Juddasked Her Majesty's Government:
What arrangements they are making, together with the United States, to establish the numbers and, where possible, the identities of Iraq's military personnel who fell in the most recent war so that they can be properly commemorated; and what arrangements they are similarly making, for welfare reasons, to establish the numbers and identities of the wounded; and how soon they expect this work to be completed. [HL3838]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Bach)We have no viable means of ascertaining the numbers or identities of Iraqi military personnel who were killed or injured during the coalition's military action.
The Deployed Operating Instructions issued to all United Kingdom military units state that enemy dead are to be treated the same as UK military dead. This includes a direction that, where next of kin cannot he traced, the bodies are to be given the same funeral as would UK military personnel, subject to religious practices. Wounded enemy personnel are given care and medical attention that accord fully with our obligations under the Geneva Convention.