§ Mr. Keith Vaz (Leicester, East)I beg leave to present a petition of some 10,000 signatures on behalf of the case of my constituent, John Hall, who lives at 35 Shetland road, Leicester. Mr. Hall served as a nuclear test veteran on Christmas island in the 1950s. As the House knows, the matter has been raised on several occasions during our proceedings. Some 10,000 people support his claim for compensation. The petition is directed at the Prime Minister in the hope that he will further investigate the claims of Mr. Hall and the other nuclear test veterans.
The petition reads:
Wherefore your petitioners pray that your Honourable House call upon the Prime Minister, John Major, and his Government to act upon his recent pledge to investigate further the claim for compensation along with that of other Christmas Island test veterans for ill health caused by those tests.Although we recently had a letter from the Prime Minister, the campaign goes on and the petition is presented in support of it.
§ To lie upon the Table.