Mr. O'NeillTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what information he has on studies of the risks to his Department's personnel of exposure to nuclear radiation that have been carried out in the last 10 years;
(2) what studies are currently being undertaken by his Department to reassess the risks to his Department's personnel of exposure to nuclear radiation;
(3) what current studies to reassess the risks to his Department's personnel of exposure to nuclear radiation have been commissioned or are being funded by his Department.
§ Mr. Kenneth Carlisle[holding answer 17 October 1990]: No studies are currently being undertaken, commissioned or funded by MOD. Any study confined to 953W MOD would most probably lack sufficient numbers to provide the necessary statistical power. MOD is committed to contributing to national studies by providing dosimetry information to larger databases such as the national register of radiation workers and to Professor Kinlen's study into incidence of childhood leukaemia in children of exposed workers in Scotland.