Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Keith Vaz (Labour), on Thursday, 11 May 2006, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 42 members in total.

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COMPENSATION TO THE VICTIMS OF SOUTH PACIFIC NUCLEAR TESTS

That this House calls on the Ministry of Defence to provide fair compensation and a full apology to service veterans who were deliberately exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during a series of British nuclear tests in South Pacific during the 1950s and 1960s; notes new research carried out by Dr Al Rowland of Massey University, New Zealand, which provides further strong evidence of linkage between exposure to nuclear tests and medical conditions which developed later; and further notes that these veterans and their children have suffered from appalling medical conditions directly related to radiation poisoning over the past 50 years.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

2142 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Martin Caton

Andrew Dismore

Angus Brendan MacNeil

Mike Penning

Subjects

Compensation Nuclear weapons Radiation exposure Testing Pacific Ocean islands Veterans

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk