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934401

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government has retained records of the health monitoring carried out during UK nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>As is normal practice, Service medical records are retained for nuclear test participants, but these individual military medical records are not held centrally.</p><p>Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment include those related to the single use film badges, which, as is normal practice, were destroyed after their measurements were recorded. In some cases measurements were not taken because the badges were lost or damaged in situ. Where measurements were found to align with background levels readings were, in some cases, not retained.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160134 160135 question first answered 11/07/2018 14:23:20 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934402

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the fate of the film badges worn by veterans who were present during the British nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>As is normal practice, Service medical records are retained for nuclear test participants, but these individual military medical records are not held centrally.</p><p>Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment include those related to the single use film badges, which, as is normal practice, were destroyed after their measurements were recorded. In some cases measurements were not taken because the badges were lost or damaged in situ. Where measurements were found to align with background levels readings were, in some cases, not retained.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160133 160135 question first answered 11/07/2018 14:23:20 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934403

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the radiation readings measured by the film badges worn by veterans during the nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>As is normal practice, Service medical records are retained for nuclear test participants, but these individual military medical records are not held centrally.</p><p>Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment include those related to the single use film badges, which, as is normal practice, were destroyed after their measurements were recorded. In some cases measurements were not taken because the badges were lost or damaged in situ. Where measurements were found to align with background levels readings were, in some cases, not retained.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160133 160134 question first answered 11/07/2018 14:23:21 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934404

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the alpha radiation contamination on Christmas Island during the UK nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160136
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Alpha radiation was not routinely measured to monitor the environment because measuring beta and gamma radiation was more efficient.</p><p>Alpha monitoring equipment was held at Christmas Island as a contingency in the event of an accident, but was never required.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/07/2018 14:24:29 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934405

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the (a) protection and (b) safety training that was provided to service personnel who collected monitoring equipment and assessed bomb damage after the UK nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Information is held which confirms that regulations were in place to ensure that protection and safety information was given by the officer responsible to all personnel involved in each task. This included subjects such as basic training in nuclear weapon effect and health physics for all ranks, personal protection and issue and use of protective clothing and dosemeters and training in radiological safety.</p><p>The tests took place over or off an uninhabited part of Christmas Island. Inhabitants of other parts of the island would have been protected by generic safety precautions such as designated restricted areas.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160138 160141 question first answered 11/07/2018 16:56:11 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934406

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Christmas Island: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the (a) protection and (b) safety training that was provided to Christmas Island inhabitants during the nuclear tests on that island in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160138
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Information is held which confirms that regulations were in place to ensure that protection and safety information was given by the officer responsible to all personnel involved in each task. This included subjects such as basic training in nuclear weapon effect and health physics for all ranks, personal protection and issue and use of protective clothing and dosemeters and training in radiological safety.</p><p>The tests took place over or off an uninhabited part of Christmas Island. Inhabitants of other parts of the island would have been protected by generic safety precautions such as designated restricted areas.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160137 160141 question first answered 11/07/2018 16:56:11 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934409

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the mental health of veterans involved in UK nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not hold information on the mental health of veterans of the UK's atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/07/2018 14:25:42 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934411

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of aircrew who flew through mushroom clouds on UK nuclear test sampling missions in the 1950s and 1960s that are still alive.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold this information nor have we estimated the number of aircrew still alive.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 11/07/2018 16:56:43 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

934414

registered interest
date	03/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on what information nuclear veterans were given on the exposure risks relating to the nuclear tests they were involved in during the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	160141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2018 answer text <p>Information is held which confirms that regulations were in place to ensure that protection and safety information was given by the officer responsible to all personnel involved in each task. This included subjects such as basic training in nuclear weapon effect and health physics for all ranks, personal protection and issue and use of protective clothing and dosemeters and training in radiological safety.</p><p>The tests took place over or off an uninhabited part of Christmas Island. Inhabitants of other parts of the island would have been protected by generic safety precautions such as designated restricted areas.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 160137 160138 question first answered 11/07/2018 16:56:11 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

802183

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft: Ministers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which Government Ministers have used RAF aircraft on official business for what purposes on what dates since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	117870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>Information on Ministerial travel is published on a quarterly transparency return on ww.gov.uk.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 117914 117931 117970 question first answered 11/12/2017 17:35:15 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest