MORATORIUM ON USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM

Early day motion 250, tabled 24 January 2001 by Alice Mahon (Labour). Signed by 50 members.

That this House shares the growing international concern that the use of depleted uranium munitions causes cancers and other serious and long-term injuries to health; welcomes the decision by Her Majesty's Government to screen British troops for depleted uranium poisoning; believes that alternative munitions should be employed in future; calls for Her Majesty's Government to impose a moratorium on the use of depleted uranium munitions by British forces and declare a commitment to cleaning up the environmental contamination caused by their use in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and sites in Britain where testing and manufacture of depleted uranium weapons take place; and notes that the US Navy is banning the use of depleted uranium ammunition.

Signatures by party: Labour 39, Liberal Democrat 4, Labour/Co-operative 3, Scottish National Party 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.