HC Deb 11 July 1989 vol 156 c494W
46. Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he has yet been able to assess the implications for his policy on compensation arrangements to United Kingdom ex-service men and their families who were nuclear test victims of the recent decision in the Australian courts.

Mr. Sainsbury

No. The court in Australia has yet to make available the judgment, and consequently we cannot say at present what implications, if any, there might be for British participants in the United Kingdom nuclear test programme.