Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records — [Martin Vickers in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 9:30 am on 28 November 2023.

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Photo of Richard Foord Richard Foord Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Defence) 9:30, 28 November 2023

I congratulate the hon. Member on securing the debate and on all her successful campaigning work on this issue. I have a constituent whose late husband was one of the test veterans who served in Kiritimati, or Christmas Island. She wrote to me a couple of months ago and said:

“On landing back home after an arduous journey at the young age of 20 or 21 years old, he started to regress into bed-wetting…None of the politicians that are now in the House could possibly know what it was like to be ordered to be guinea pigs for the so-called good of the country.”

Given what my constituent writes, does the hon. Member agree that some of the illnesses and symptoms were mental as well as physical?