HL Deb 30 July 1997 vol 582 cc74-6WA
Baroness Park of Monmouth

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the original research paper containing Group Captain Coker's findings that was submitted to the Gulf War inquiry on posting will be published; and, if so, whether they will place a copy of the paper in the Library of the House.

Lord Gilbert

Group Captain Coker published a paper on the results from the first 284 patients seen by the MoD's Medical Assessment Programme (MAP) in the Summer 1996 edition of the Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service (A Review of Gulf War Illness J roy nav med Serv 1996; 82: 141–146). In late 1996 he prepared the first draft of a paper concerning the results from some 500 MAP patients. Work on this draft paper was never completed.

However, doctors at the MAP have now seen 1,435 patients and the Government have undertaken to publish detailed results from the programme later this year. Group Captain Coker will be closely involved with this work, which will supersede his earlier draft paper. A copy of this will be placed in the Library of the House when completed and published.