Perfluorooctanoic Acid: Military Bases

(asked on 24th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) perfluorooctane sulfate and (b) perfluooctane acid firefighting foams there are on military bases in the UK; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 29th April 2020

There are no firefighting foams in use on the Defence estate that use either perfluorooctane sulfate and perfluooctane acid as constituents. Foams with these constituents were withdrawn from use in 2015.

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