Chilcot report in numbers

1730 days

The number of days we have been waiting for the report to be published. At the time it was briefed that the inquiry would take up to a year to report.

“The committee will start work as soon as possible after the end of July, and, given the complexity of the issues it will address, I am advised it will take one year,” Gordon Brown said at the time.

£12 million: the cost of the inquiry

Channel 4 News has estimated that the seven year inquiry will cost at least £12m. In the past six financial years £10,375,000 has been spent on the inquiry.

The costs of 2015/16 are yet to be announced and are likely to be similar to recent years where the bulk of money is spent on staff and office costs as no more public evidence sessions or meetings have been held. If the extra two months of costs between April 2016 and June 2016 — the promised publish date — are added, it is likely to cost in the region of £12m.

£4.6 million on Iraq Inquiry staffing

Almost half of the total £10.3m spend was on staffing, the official figures show. A further £1.5 million on committee and advisers.

£4,900 was spent on stationery, £138,000 on travel (although the vast majority of this was in the first year of the inquiry) and £500,200 on IT and telecommunications.

Elsewhere £12,900 was spent on publications and £1.48m on office costs.

2 million words

The report will be 2 million words long. As Jon Snow points out, over double the Holy Bible at 807,361 words and the collected works of Shakespeare — a mere 884,000 words.

130 witness sessions

In the first year the Inquiry spent £588,700 on public hearings and a further £24,400 on other public events. They received 150,000 documents in evidence.

The evidence sessions included appearances by Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell, Clare Short, Gordon Brown, David Miliband and Jack Straw among many, many others.

£273,000 to protect Tony Blair

Scotland Yard ran up a £273,000 bill protecting Tony Blair when he gave evidence at the Iraq War inquiry, official figures revealed. £178,000 of this was “opportunity costs” – money that would have been spent anyway in police wages – and £61,000 was spent in overtime. A further £34,000 was spent on other costs including air support and barriers.

The Met said that 657 police office shifts and 28 police staff shifts were worked during the time he gave evidence.

However police at the time said extra cost was “minimal” as the area near the Queen Elizabeth Conference centre where the inquiry was held always requires a high police presence as it is next the Houses of Parliament.

1 million march

Protesters claimed that the figure was closer to 2 million, while the police say that 750,000 marched. Most accept that around a million people marched on London on Sunday 16 February, 2003.

179 servicemen and women died

The UK lost 179 servicemen and women, of which 136 were killed in action. By 31 August 2010, when the last US combat troops left, 4,421 US service personnel had been killed, of which 3,492 were killed in action. Almost 32,000 had been wounded in action.

According to the organisation Iraq Body Count between 97,461 and 106,348 were killed. The organisation says the difference between the numbers is due to discrepancies in reports of different incidents.

The UN-backed Iraqi Family Health Survey estimated 151,000 violent deaths for the period between March 2003 to June 2006. This number includes combatants.

£9.24bn cost of the Iraq war to the UK Treasury

Whitehall figures released in June 2010 put the cost of British funding of the Iraq conflict at £9.24bn. The vast majority of this was for the military but which also included £557m in aid.