USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM

Early day motion 212, tabled 17 January 2001 by Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru). Signed by 23 members.

That this House notes that the Ministerial statement by the Minister for the Armed Forces on 9th January, Official Report, column 878, declared that 300 tonnes of depleted uranium had been fired in the Gulf; compares this to the written answer given by the then Minister for the Armed Forces to a parliamentary question by the Right honourable Member for Caernarfon on 17th November 1998, Official Report, column 453, which stated that less than one metric tonne of depleted uranium was used during hostilities in Iraq; and requests an explanation for this anomaly, as it brings into question the Government's present figures for how much depleted uranium was used in the Balkan conflict.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Plaid Cymru 4, Scottish National Party 2, Liberal Democrat 1, UUP 1.