§ Lord Jenkins of Putneyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether a recommendation that doctors co-operate with the military and police to kill the seriously injured following a nuclear attack so as to put moribund millions out of their misery was suppressed by the Faculty of Community Medicine at ministerial or departmental request; and if this was not the case, whether they will make it clear that it is their policy that these matters should be publicly discussed so that the electorate may be made fully aware of the consequences of a military policy based on nuclear weapons.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Lord Trefgarne)My department has made no attempt to suppress any recommendations made by the Faculty of Community Medicine on the medical aspects of nuclear war plans. The Government welcome every opportunity for open discussion of the threat, the precautionary measures available to the public and the cost implications to the individual or to the nation of adopting them. An informed public will be much better able to judge what is necessary, feasible and desirable in the civil defence field.
House adjourned at half-past eight o'clock.