A public ballot will be held later for people wanting seats to watch Tony Blair appear before the Iraq Inquiry.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will give evidence to the Iraq inquiry on 29 January, it has been announced.
Mr Blair, prime minister during the Iraq war in 2003, will appear for one day this month or in early February.
Mr Blair, the highest profile figure to appear before the panel, will face six hours of questioning.
The ballot is for 60 seats, with a third of the places being set aside for bereaved families of service personnel or other Britons killed in Iraq.
A public ballot will be held later on Monday for people wanting seats to watch his evidence session.
Mr Blair's former Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell will be a witness at the inquiry this afternoon.
Mr Blair, prime minister during the Iraq war in 2003, is expected to answer questions about the build-up to war and planning for its aftermath.
He will be followed later in the week by the former defence secretary Geoff Hoon and Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who was serving as foreign secretary in 2003.
Mr Blair will give evidence for six hours during a morning and afternoon.
So far officials at the inquiry have only said that the former prime minister will be called sometime in the two weeks after January the 25th.
Last week Mr Blair's former director of communications Alastair Campbell appeared before the panel.
He said he "defends every single word" of the 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Campbell is the most prominent figure to appear so far before the inquiry, which is looking at UK policy before and after the 2003 war.
