HC Deb 23 November 1995 vol 267 cc263-6W
Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the titles of each of the unclassified technical papers known as Porton notes produced by the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment Porton Down between 1965 and 1968. [1583]

Mr. Arbuthnot

This is a matter for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency under its framework document. I have asked the chief executive, DERA, to write to the hon. Member.

Letter from John Chisholm to Mr. Ken Livingstone, dated 23 November 1995: Your Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Defence asking if he will list the titles of the unclassified technical papers known as Porton Notes produced by the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down between 1965 and 1968 has been passed to me to reply as the Chief Executive of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency which includes CBDE as one of its divisions. I have listed below the titles of each of the unclassified technical papers known as Potion Notes produced by the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, a fore-runner of CBDE, between 1965 and 1968.

  • Porton Note-288—Preliminary studies on an anagram test for use in performance assessment.
  • Porton Note-374—Development of spray equipment. Hand-held training.
  • Porton Note-378—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for dust respirators. Report on the protector dust respirator Q/R2000.
  • Porton Note-393—HM factory inspectorate approval scheme for dust respirators. Report on the Safirmatic dust respirator.
  • Porton Note-376—Construction of a radio transmitter for the short range telemetry of cat electroencephalograms.
  • Porton Note-375—Report on the Martindale positive powered respirator unit.
  • Porton Note-373—Certification mark scheme for dust respirators. Report on the Protector dust respirator Q/R. 1000.
  • Porton Note-371—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for canister respirators. Report on the Baxter canisters.
  • Porton Note-368—Certification mark scheme for dust respirators. Report on the Baxter pneuseal dust respirator.
  • Porton Note-367—Polarographic estimation of enzyme activity.
  • Porton Note-359—Vapour source for the calibration of automatic alarms in the field.
  • Porton Note-358—Humidity control system for a small chamber.
  • Porton Note-353—Radio-controlled rotorod aerosol sampler.
  • Porton Note-349—Sodium flame test for respirator canisters.
  • Porton Note-347—Estimation of diffusion at short range in stable conditions.
  • Porton Note-346—Determination of quantitative values for various categories of vertical stability of the atmosphere.
  • Porton Note-343—Concept attainment test.
  • Porton Note-341—Improvements to the sodium flame penetrometer.
  • Porton Note-340—Electrical measurement of respiration and heart rate.
  • Porton Note-336—Blood cholinesterase levels and symptoms in anticholinesterase poisoning.
  • Porton Note-335—Use of polybutadiene synthetic rubber in respirator rubbers.
  • Porton Note-334—Dispenser for the CS pellet for use in testing the AFU Mk 2.
  • Porton Note-333—Certification mark scheme for dust respirators. Report on the British American optical companys Safline dust respirator.
  • Porton Note-332—Device for automatically aligning a particle sampler into the wind.
  • Porton Note-331—Review of recent research on aerosol filtration.
  • Porton Note-329—Removal of simulated particulate fallout from a vehicle using the Porton exhaust powered vacuum cleaner.
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  • Porton Note-328—Normative data for a test battery used to assess human performance following drugs.
  • Porton Note-327—Comparison of the smoke performances of the British 81mm and 3 inch WP mortar bombs.
  • Porton Note-326—Report on the Martindale-fumex respirator.
  • Porton Note-325 Comparison between the sodium chloride and nitrogen meter respirator leakage tests.
  • Potion Note-323—Certification mark scheme for dust respirators. Report on the British American optical company's Sure-guard dust respirator.
  • Porton Note-321—Critical assessment of the claims made for toxogonin, An antidote for organophosphorus poisoning.
  • Porton Note-320—Some tests of the Mullard automatic particle analyser type L188.
  • Porton Note-319—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for canister respirators. Report on the Angus canister respirator.
  • Porton Note-319A—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for canister respirators. Gas tests of industrial containers for Geo. Angus and Company.
  • Porton Note-318—High Speed gas-liquid chromatography: Column evaluation.
  • Porton Note-317—Sampling efficiency of millipore filter sampler design CD 6895.
  • Porton Note-316—Correlation of filter penetrations by different particulate test clouds.
  • Porton Note-314—Regeneration of used charcoal from air purification filters.
  • Porton Note-313—Gaseous atmospheric pollutants. A literature survey.
  • Porton Note-311—Assessment of used charcoals from air purification units by heat of wetting measurements.
  • Porton Note-310—Spectroscopic studies on ricin. The quantitative determination of sodium sulphate content and an apparent correlation of infrared absorption with toxicity.
  • Porton Note-303—Swelling of rubber in vapour and liquid:-Literature and theory.
  • Porton Note-296—Certification mark scheme for duct respirators. Report on the MSA Comfo ideal dust respirator.
  • Porton Note-293—Effect of water on G and V agents. A review of work carried out in the UK.
  • Porton Note-289—Devices for the teaching of expired air resuscitation.
  • Porton Note-378—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for dust respirators: Report on the protector dust respirator Q/R 2000.
  • Porton Note-374—Development of spray equipment. Hand-held training.
  • Porton Note-388—Permeability characteristics of the skin: A literature survey.
  • Porton Note-392—Effect of water vapour on the responses of a micro-argon ionisation detector.
  • Porton Note-395—Vertical diffusivity profiles for diffusion to range 1Km.
  • Porton Note-394—HM factory inspectorate approval scheme for dust respirators: Report on the Martindale dust respirators types W and Y.
  • Porton Note-383—Ministry of Labour approval scheme for dust respirators report on the Pirelli dust respirators type BN9C1.
  • Potion Note-391—Estimate of the metabolic cost of decontamination for two teams of men using two different techniques.
  • Porton Note 385—Australian Finger Cherry, Rhodomyrtus Macrocarpa Benth. Toxicological study of some fruit extracts.

In my letter to you of the 26 July I said that 57 of the Porton Notes were unclassified. Whilst compiling this list it was discovered that the original Library listing contained duplicate entries for Potion Notes 383 and 393. This is why the above list only includes 55 titles. I am sorry about this.I hope this information is helpful.