speaker, i can announce to the committee will be chaired by sir john chilcot, baroness usha prashar, sir roderick lyne, sir lawrence freedman and sir martin gilbert. all are or will become privy councilors. the committee will start work as soon as possible after the end of july given the complexity of the issues it will address i'm a vice will take a year read as i have made clear the primary objective of the committee will be to identify lessons learned. the committee will not said how to apportion blame are considered issues of civil or criminal liability. finally mr. speaker i am sure the whole house will join in paying should be to the courage and dedication of every one of our armed forces and also our civilian personnel who have served our country with such distinction in iraq over six years and will continue to do so in afghanistan on peacekeeping missions around the world. mr. speaker, at its peak in the course of 46,000 served tours of duty in support of operations in iraq, and totaled 120,000 men and women served over the time of the entire conflict. 179 britons died of a 2