Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) digital and (b) physical copies his Department holds of the 1988 National Radiological Protection Report Board Report, Mortality and cancer incidence in UK participants in UK atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and experimental programmes.

The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. This report is some thirty-four years old, pre-dating the advent of widespread electronic filing, and over the intervening decades copies held by the Ministry of Defence may since have been filed, archived, placed in storage etc. making it impractical to give a definitive answer without incurring disproportionate cost recalling and searching records.

The report was originally published in the British Medical Journal, and is publicly available via the National Archives at the following link:

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20140714112415/http:/www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1281953945227