Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the fate of the film badges worn by veterans who were present during the British nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s and 1960s.

As is normal practice, Service medical records are retained for nuclear test participants, but these individual military medical records are not held centrally.

Records held by the Atomic Weapons Establishment include those related to the single use film badges, which, as is normal practice, were destroyed after their measurements were recorded. In some cases measurements were not taken because the badges were lost or damaged in situ. Where measurements were found to align with background levels readings were, in some cases, not retained.