§ Mr. LivingstoneTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many times since 1990 the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down has supplied information about former volunteers to the War Pensions Agency when those volunteers have submitted a claim to the Agency. [33803]
§ Dr. ReidSince 1990 the Chemical and Biological Defence sector (CBD) of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) has responded to approximately eighty requests from the War Pensions Agency for information relating to former volunteers. CBD also responds to requests received from individual volunteers, their representatives and the Army Historical Branch.
CBD responds to each request for information with all available details from the surviving records and as full an explanation as possible concerning the trials in which the volunteer participated.