Written question asked by Ken Livingstone (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 April 1998, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 April 1998. It was answered by John Denham (Labour) on Monday, 20 April 1998 on behalf of the Department of Social Security.

Dept of Social Security

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, in which years each of the war pensions for former service personnel who participated in the nuclear tests programmes in Australia and the South Pacific and developed leukaemia, or the widows of such personnel, were awarded. - Including table.

Answer: Mr. Livingstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security in which years each of the war pensions for former service personnel who participated in the nuclear tests programmes in Australia and the South Pacific and developed leukaemia, or the widows of such personnel, were awarded. [38648] Mr. Denham: The information is set out in the table. Awards of war disablement and war widows pensions _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year of award Awards of war disablement pension Awards of war widows pension 1986 -- 1 1988 1 5 1989 2 1 1992 -- 1 Total 3 8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Previously published information incorrectly identified an award of war widows pension as one of war disablement pension. This error has been corrected in the above table.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 310 c544W; 38648
Session: 1997-98
Subjects: Australia Pensions Nuclear weapons Testing War pensions War widow(er)s Leukaemia Christmas Island Veterans
Contains statistics: Yes