§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will institute an independent survey into the health of the 12,000 British service men who took part in nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific in the 1950s.
§ Mr. PattieThe Ministry of Defence announced on 12 January 1983 that it would commision a health survey covering those British personnel who participated in the British atmospheric nuclear test programme in the 1950s. Independent radiological protection authorities will be invited to participate.
§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of men aged 18 to 24 years who were involved during or after the British nuclear test explosions in the 1950s died from blood cancer; and how that compares with the proportion of men of similar age in the rest of the British population.
§ Mr. PattieThese data are not directly available. The health survey announced by the Ministry of Defence on 12 January 1983 is specifically designed to produce them.