§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what steps are taken to ensure that his officials and scientific advisers are using the most up-to-date medical and scientific knowledge to study the relationship between radiation exposure and subsequent illness for nuclear test veterans.
§ Mr. Archie Hamilton[holding answer 22 January 1991]: The National Radiological Protection Board and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund are accepted authorities in the fields of radiological protection and epidemiology. The methodology they used in the first test veterans study, which will also be used for the follow-up study, was subject to review by other experts in the field of epidemiology and no criticism was made by them.