Depleted Uranium

(asked on 14th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the use of depleted uranium by UK armed forces operating in Iraq and Syria.


Answered by
Mark Francois Portrait
Mark Francois
Shadow Minister (Defence)
This question was answered on 27th October 2014

None of the munitions supplied to UK Forces for use over Iraq contains depleted uranium; there are no UK forces operating in Syria. There are no plans to issue depleted uranium weapons to UK forces operating over Iraq.

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