§ Baroness Williams of Crosbyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many Iraqi civilians were killed by coalition forces in the month of March 2004. [HL2524]
§ Lord BachUnited Kingdom units report all confirmed fatalities of which they are aware arising from incidents in which they were involved. We have recently put in place a mechanism for collation of unit reports since 1 May 2003. I will write to the noble Baroness as soon as a figure for March 2004 has been collated but due to the number of reports that must be examined, this is likely to take some time.
We are not in a position to comment on civilian casualties allegedly caused by other coalition partners.