§ Mr. ChurchillTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much compensation has been paid since 1966 by Her Majesty's Government in respect of claims by or on behalf of persons who suffered death or injury as a consequence of the United Kingdom's atomic weapons test programme in Australasia in the 1950s. [14929]
§ Mr. SoamesThe Government have paid no such claims. From the time of the atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s and early 1960s up to the end of 1990, there has been no overall excess of death or malignant disease among British nuclear test veterans.