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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what data his Department holds on the number of British Armed Forces personnel exposed to sarin gas during the Gulf War.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what data his Department holds on the number of British Armed Forces personnel exposed to sarin gas during the Gulf War.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) continues to monitor and welcome any new research on Gulf War issues that is published around the world. New research will be considered carefully, and a determination made to assesses if our current policies and compensation arrangements remain appropriate. The majority of information held by the MOD concerning the 1990/91 Gulf conflict, now being some thirty years ago, has long since been transferred to the National Archives: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20050328202002/http://www.mod.uk/issues/gulfwar/index.html
What data MOD does still hold is primarily limited to War Pensions data on veterans’ symptoms/conditions and veterans who were awarded compensation for those conditions. Help and support is available for any veteran who requests it through a variety of sources, including the Veterans Welfare Service, the Veterans Gateway, and Veterans UK. Gulf War veterans who believe they have suffered ill health due to service have the right to apply for no-fault compensation under the War Pensions Scheme. War Pensions are payable in respect of illness or injury as a result of service in the Armed Forces before 6 April 2005, with the benefit of reasonable doubt always given to the claimant. Decisions are medically certified and follow consideration of available service and medical evidence, contemporary medical understanding of the causes of claimed disorders, and the relevant standard of proof. The decisions carry full rights of appeal to an independent Tribunal. All Gulf veterans who are ill receive appropriate medical care from the NHS and will receive priority treatment, subject to clinical need, in England, Scotland, and Wales if their condition is as a result of their military service.
Contemporary medical and scientific understanding from the mid-1990s onwards has identified no distinct disease process or pathology underlying Gulf symptoms and illness. In line with the Medical Research Council (MRC) review of 2003, which recommended no further research on possible causation of Gulf illness, the MOD has no plans to institute further research into Gulf conflict related illnesses nor to hold an inquiry. The UK Government's strategy on research topics and studies into the health of Gulf War veterans has been informed and overseen by independent scientific experts nominated by the MRC, taking account of published peer-reviewed international literature and international studies.
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Morris, on securing a debate on this difficult subject, on which we all acknowledge he is an expert. As we all know, Gulf War syndrome refers to the complex of symptoms which particularly affects the veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War at...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Morris, on securing a debate on this difficult subject, on which we all acknowledge he is an expert. As we all know, Gulf War syndrome refers to the complex of symptoms which particularly affects the veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War at...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what further consideration the Ministry of Defence has given to the implications for British veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War of the findings of the congressionally mandated and funded United States Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War illnesses on the toxic effects of exposure to...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what further consideration the Ministry of Defence has given to the implications for British veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War of the findings of the congressionally mandated and funded United States Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War illnesses on the toxic effects of exposure to...
I can assure the noble Lord that we did learn from the events of 1991, one lesson being the importance of much better record-keeping. I can confirm that Gulf War syndrome inasmuch as it exists—that is, the higher propensity which we acknowledge of the occurrence of a certain range of...
I can assure the noble Lord that we did learn from the events of 1991, one lesson being the importance of much better record-keeping. I can confirm that Gulf War syndrome inasmuch as it exists—that is, the higher propensity which we acknowledge of the occurrence of a certain range of...
It is good of my noble friend to give way, and I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. Before the Minister concludes, I must again make it utterly clear that the senior programme officer of the Institute of Medicine in the United States...
It is good of my noble friend to give way, and I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. Before the Minister concludes, I must again make it utterly clear that the senior programme officer of the Institute of Medicine in the United States...
My Lords, we are met to debate the importance of the landmark findings of US congressionally-mandated research on Gulf War illnesses for many thousands of British veterans of the conflict now in broken health, many of them terminally ill, who were prepared to lay down their lives in the most...
My Lords, we are met to debate the importance of the landmark findings of US congressionally-mandated research on Gulf War illnesses for many thousands of British veterans of the conflict now in broken health, many of them terminally ill, who were prepared to lay down their lives in the most...
My Lords, I put my name down to speak in this debate because Gulf War illness is a subject in which I have had a close interest for a long time. Having heard what the noble Lord, Lord Morris of Manchester, and the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, have...
My Lords, I put my name down to speak in this debate because Gulf War illness is a subject in which I have had a close interest for a long time. Having heard what the noble Lord, Lord Morris of Manchester, and the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Craig, have...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Morris, on obtaining this debate, and I apologise for my momentary absence at the beginning. The noble Lord, Lord Morris, has been a fine champion of the Armed Forces and a real force for good in their interest. He and I co-chaired...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Morris, on obtaining this debate, and I apologise for my momentary absence at the beginning. The noble Lord, Lord Morris, has been a fine champion of the Armed Forces and a real force for good in their interest. He and I co-chaired...
My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Morris of Manchester, who has, in his characteristically indomitable way, managed to make sure that this House and, indeed, the wider public have been constantly reminded of the way in which the nation effectively let down those who served...
My Lords, I, too, pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Morris of Manchester, who has, in his characteristically indomitable way, managed to make sure that this House and, indeed, the wider public have been constantly reminded of the way in which the nation effectively let down those who served...
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Morris, for maintaining the Government’s alertness to this issue. He has raised it on every possible occasion. He certainly maintains the pressure—particularly on me, since it always seems to come up on my watch. That is a good process, for which...
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Morris, for maintaining the Government’s alertness to this issue. He has raised it on every possible occasion. He certainly maintains the pressure—particularly on me, since it always seems to come up on my watch. That is a good process, for which...
I am grateful to the Minister. On that specific point, will he confirm that, as a result of the experience in 1991, there was no repeat of the administration of that cocktail combination when it came to preparing our troops for the invasion of Iraq in 2003?
I am grateful to the Minister. On that specific point, will he confirm that, as a result of the experience in 1991, there was no repeat of the administration of that cocktail combination when it came to preparing our troops for the invasion of Iraq in 2003?
I thank my noble friend for his intervention. As I said, we will always be sensitive to any information that comes forward. A report will be published on, we believe, 8 April. We will then see the extent to which it comments on the RAC and to which that improves...
I thank my noble friend for his intervention. As I said, we will always be sensitive to any information that comes forward. A report will be published on, we believe, 8 April. We will then see the extent to which it comments on the RAC and to which that improves...
Lords question for short debate on what further consideration the Ministry of Defence has given to the implications for British veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War of the findings of the congressionally mandated and funded United States Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War illnesses on the toxic effects of exposure to organophosphates and of the nerve agent pre-treatment sets (NAPS) tablets given to British troops deployed to the conflict.
Lords question for short debate on what further consideration the Ministry of Defence has given to the implications for British veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War of the findings of the congressionally mandated and funded United States Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War illnesses on the toxic effects of exposure...
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Answer by Lord Drayson on 22 March (Official Report, col. 1335) about the amount of sarin released in the fallout at Khamisiyah in March 1991, how much sarin was involved in the fallout.
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Answer by Lord Drayson on 22 March (Official Report, col. 1335) about the amount of sarin released in the fallout at Khamisiyah in March 1991, how much sarin was involved in the fallout.
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 1 November (WA 34) on Gulf War illnesses, on what date they first became aware of the research at Wright State University in Ohio into autonomic dysfunction following low-level sarin exposure and its possible relevance to illnesses among...
asked Her Majesty's Government:Further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 1 November (WA 34) on Gulf War illnesses, on what date they first became aware of the research at Wright State University in Ohio into autonomic dysfunction following low-level sarin exposure and its possible relevance to illnesses among...
Further to the Written Answers by the Lord Drayson on 9 October (HL7284) and 22 June(WA 99), what information the Ministry of Defence has received from its liaison officer in Washington DC on the findings to date of the research at Wright State University in Ohio into autonomic dysfunction following...
Further to the Written Answers by the Lord Drayson on 9 October (HL7284) and 22 June(WA 99), what information the Ministry of Defence has received from its liaison officer in Washington DC on the findings to date of the research at Wright State University in Ohio into autonomic dysfunction following...
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 22 March 2005, 671 c22WA, what was the tonnage of sarin and cyclosarin involved in the fall-out from the bombing by United States forces of Iraq's chemical arms depots at Khamisiyah in March 1991. [HL 2006]. - Inc figures.
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 22 March 2005, 671 c22WA, what was the tonnage of sarin and cyclosarin involved in the fall-out from the bombing by United States forces of Iraq's chemical arms depots at Khamisiyah in March 1991. [HL 2006]. - Inc figures.
Further to the Written Statement by the Lord Bach on 27 January 2005, 668 c58WA on "Khamisyiah: Nerve Agents", whether they were then aware that the United States Government Accountability Office had concluded that, given the "uncertainties in source term data and divergences in model results, the United States Department...
Further to the Written Statement by the Lord Bach on 27 January 2005, 668 c58WA on "Khamisyiah: Nerve Agents", whether they were then aware that the United States Government Accountability Office had concluded that, given the "uncertainties in source term data and divergences in model results, the United States Department...