The costs of deploying troops on military operations are calculated on a net additional basis and audited figures are published each year in the MOD’s Annual Report and Accounts. Costs of peacekeeping operations for financial years 1997-98 to 2006-07 were:
Current prices (£ million) Total Outturn Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2006-07 1,754 Of which: Balkans (Bosnia/Kosovo) 56 Afghanistan 742 Iraq 956 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2005-06 1,220 Of which: Balkans (Bosnia/Kosovo) 63 Afghanistan 199 Iraq 958 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2004-05 1,064 Of which: Balkans (Bosnia/Kosovo) 87 Afghanistan 67 Iraq 910 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2003-04 1,462 Of which: Balkans (Bosnia/Kosovo) 103 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 Afghanistan 46 Iraq 1,311 Sierra Leone 1 EUFYROM 1 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2002-03 1,390 Of which: Kosovo 105 Bosnia 81 Gulf 45 Afghanistan 311 Iraq 848 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2001-02 557 Of which: Kosovo 142 Bosnia 93 Gulf 61 Sierra Leone 40 Afghanistan 221 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 2000-011 382 Of which: Kosovo 220 Bosnia 120 Gulf 25 Sierra Leone 17 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 1999-2000 461 Of which: Kosovo 325 Bosnia 108 Gulf 28 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 1998-99 196 Of which: Kosovo 14 Bosnia 147 Gulf 35 Total Peacekeeping Costs: 1997-98 402 Of which: Bosnia 386 Gulf 16 1 Prior to Financial Year 2001-02 costs were recorded on a cash accounting basis and therefore are on a different basis to subsequent years where recourse accounting costs are included.
The following estimated costs for operations in 2007-08 were included in Spring Supplementary Estimates published in February:
£ million Afghanistan 1,582 Iraq 1,648 Balkans 31
Final figures will be published shortly in the MOD’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2007-08.