HC Deb 20 April 1998 vol 310 c544W
Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security in which years each of the war pensions for former service personnel who participated in the nuclear tests programmes in Australia and the South Pacific and developed leukaemia, or the widows of such personnel, were awarded. [38648]

Mr. Denham

The information is set out in the table.

Awards of war disablement and war widows pensions
Year of award Awards of war disablement pension Awards of war widows pension
1986 -
1988 1 5
1989 2 1
1992 - 1
Total 3 8

Note:

Previously published information incorrectly identified an award of war widows pension as one of war disablement pension. This error has been corrected in the above table.