To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what advice Ministers, military personnel and civil servants in his Department gave to their counterparts in the United States prior to the disbandment of the Iraqi army and the de-Ba'athification programme in May 2003. (137128)

I have nothing further to add to the answer my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Dr. Howells) gave on 18 May 2007, Official Report, column 973W.