The Iraq Inquiry was the public inquiry ordered by the British government into the UK's conduct before, during and after the Iraq war in 2003.
Named after its chairman Sir John Chilcot, a retired civil servant, the committee reported its findings on 6th July 2016.
The committee was set up by Gordon Brown, the then Prime Minister, in 2009, with the following members:
* Sir John Chilcot (chairman), a career diplomat and senior civil servant who was previously a member of the Butler Review
* Sir Lawrence Freedman, a military historian, and Professor of War Studies at King's College London.
* Sir Martin Gilbert (died 3 February 2015), a historian who supported the invasion of Iraq
* Sir Roderic Lyne, a former Ambassador to Russia and to the United Nations in Geneva
* Baroness Prashar, a crossbencher, member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights