Nuclear Weapons: Testing

(asked on 20th May 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what records her Department holds on military equipment contaminated by radiation during (a) UK and (b) US nuclear tests; and (i) where and (ii) how that equipment was disposed of.


Answered by
Tobias Ellwood Portrait
Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 23rd May 2019

Information on UK military equipment that may have been contaminated by UK or US nuclear tests or how it was subsequently disposed is not held centrally. To search all the Department's historic records that may contain this information could only be done at disproportionate cost.

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