Written question asked by Lord Morris of Manchester (Labour), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Drayson (Labour) on Thursday, 22 June 2006.
Gulf War Syndrome
- Question
- What information they have on the range, scope and cost of research into Gulf War illnesses funded by the Government of the United States; what comparable research they have funded; and how much has been spent under each research project.
- Answer
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The UK Government take a close interest in the research commissioned by the US authorities into Gulf veterans’ illnesses as part of their broader concern to understand and respond to illness among UK veterans of the 1990–91 Gulf conflict. Information on this research is published in an annual report to Congress: Federally, Sponsored Research on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses. The department has a British liaison officer based permanently in Washington DC tasked both with ensuring that the UK has full visibility of US research into GVI issues and with providing a channel for communicating our own work to interested US parties. The UK Government are guided on their programme of research into Gulf veterans’ illnesses by the Medical Research Council. The cost of this programme is some £8.5 million. Individual projects with costs (rounded and VAT exclusive) are:
Anthropological study into ““Gulf War syndrome”” £25,000 Cancer study £30,000 Longitudinal study of changing health in Gulf veterans £165,000 Mortality/Morbidity £435,000 Mortality/morbidity linkages study £10,000 Neuromuscular symptoms in Gulf veterans £325,000 Paraoxonase work £70,000 Reproductive Health study £1.2 million Systematic literature review of published research £85,000 Testing for squalene in vaccines £10,000 Vaccines Interactions Research Programme £4.55 million We have also co-operated with epidemiological and clinical studies of UK veterans sponsored by the US Department of Defense; research papers on the health of those veterans attending the Gulf Veterans’ Medical Assessment Programme have been published; and there have been various charges to support and manage the research programme. The costs for these are not separately identifiable.
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- 6267; 683 c99WA
- Session
- 2005-06
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- Subjects
- Finance Iraq-Kuwait conflict Research USA Gulf War syndrome Veterans
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