18^th March 2008

 

Mr Derek Twigg MP,

Parliamentary Under–Secretary of State for Defence

and Minister for Veterans,

Ministry of Defence,

Floor 5, Zone B, Main Building,

Whitehall, London,

SW1A 2HB.

 NRPB Reports 

Dear Mr Twigg,

 

In a number of recent letters you have made reference to “other international experts (who) have gone on record as being happy with the approach taken by the NRPB and the results obtained”.

 

We would be obliged for the names of these experts, together with the names of the science journals in which their peer-review’s were published.

 

Many thanks

     

John G. Lowe

26^th May 2008

 

The Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland,

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP,

10 Downing Street,

London

SW1A 2AA.

 

Dear Prime Minister,

 

On the 5^th March 2008, over two months ago, I wrote to you in respect of the setting up of an enquiry into the health of the children of the countries nuclear test veterans.

 

Although I will admit to having received an acknowledgement of the letter, it is most disappointing that you have not had the courtesy to reply, thus showing a complete lack of respect to a group of veteran servicemen who served their countries need under extremely difficult conditions.

 

I must admit my disappointment.

 

Yours sincerely

      

John G. Lowe

  

cc. Alan Campbell MP – Tynemouth

  

   British Nuclear Tests Veterans Association

All We Seek is Justice – We will never surrender

 

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                                                                                                                                   5^th March 2008

 

The Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom and Northern Ireland,

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP,

10 Downing Street,

London

SW1A 2AA.

 

Dear Prime Minister,

 

Early in December last year, you met with John Baron MP & Ian Gibson MP in order to discuss the recommendations made following the Parliamentary Inquiry held on the 15^th & 16^th October 2007. At this meeting you recommended that they have a meeting with Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defence, in order to push their proposals through.

 

Unfortunately, Des Browne refused to meet with the two MPs and passed the responsibility to Derek Twigg, Undersecretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans.

 

A meeting took place with Mr Twig on the 4^th March after which the MPs issued a press release in which they advised that they considered the meeting to have been useful in that the Minister addressed a number of the MPs points.

 

However it appears that Mr Twigg is not prepared to discuss the setting up of an enquiry into the Health and Genetic damage caused to the Children, Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren of the countries Nuclear Tests Veterans, preferring to rely on studies mainly based on the bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

There can be no comparison between the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 and the bombs tested during the British Nuclear Weapons Program. In the past, this Association has commissioned three studies into the health of our children and each has produced similar results.

 

     1992         A Very Clean Bomb?         A study by Danuta O’Neill SRN SCM.

This in turn led to the Tyne Tees Television award winning film “Children of the Bomb”

  

1999Research conducted at Dundee University Medical School under the auspices of Sue Rabbitt Roff, funded by Dame Catherine Cookson.

 

2007                                Research conducted by Dr Chris Busby, fellow of Liverpool University.

 

All these studies demonstrate that genetic damage suffered by the Nuclear Tests Veterans has been passed on down the generations.

 

 It is not acceptable for Mr Twigg to take no action on the grounds that Dr Busby’s study has not been peer reviewed. The Dundee Study was peer reviewed and Dr Busby’s study simply confirms the results.

 

 Why did the government not take action in 1999?

 

Mr Brown, you must act now and instruct that an independent body be commissioned to asses the Genetic Effects on future generations of exposure to Nuclear Radiation.

 

You owe it to the country as a whole and to future generations yet unborn.

 

DO NOT FAIL THEM!

       

John G. Lowe

Chairman