Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Mike Weir (Scottish National Party), on Monday, 14 January 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 61 members in total.

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CHRISTMAS ISLAND TEST VETERANS

That this House welcomes last month's ruling by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal that Tom Duggan, a nuclear test veteran who served in the armed forces during the UK's first A bomb programme on Christmas Island in 1958, contracted Lymphatic Cancer following exposure to radiation; notes that the tribunal's decision could finally prove to be the decisive case which overturns decades of claims by successive UK governments that the Christmas Island explosions could not have harmed UK servicemen; further notes the Ministry of Defence's refusal to grant funding to a test pioneered at Dundee University which would determine the effects of radiation on servicemen; and calls upon the Government to reconsider its position and grant the ??300,000 necessary to carry out these tests.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

645 

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Cancer Nuclear weapons Radiation exposure Testing Christmas Island Veterans

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk