HL Deb 06 July 2004 vol 663 cc73-4WA
Lord Morris of Manchester

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What consideration they are giving to th implications for British troops deployed to the 1990–91 Gulf conflict of the United State Accounting Office's new findings, published on 6 June, on the number of coalition troops potentially exposed to chemical warfare agents, including sarin and cyclosarin, from fallout from the destruction of the Iraqi chemical arms bunker at Khamisiyah in southern Iraq in March 1991; and whether they will revise their estimate of the number of British troops who could have been affected. [HL3183]

Lord Bach:

The Ministry of Defence is currently reviewing the General Accounting Office report, and the Department of Defense/CIA responses to it. It is intended that the MoD will be publishing its own assessment of the destruction of chemical warfare rockets at Khamisiyah this autumn.