§ Mr. Raceasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will implement a health screening programme to monitor the medical condition of the crew of HMS Speaker and other Royal Navy ships that visited Nagasaki in 1945; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Ian StewartNo. The levels of radioactivity at Nagasaki at the time of the visits of HMS Speaker and other Royal Navy ships in 1945 were so low that they could not have presented any significant risk to the health of the ships' crews.