Veterans: DNA
(asked on 22nd January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has (a) extracted DNA from the remains of unidentified British soldiers found on former battlefields and share (b) that DNA with ancestry companies to find matches with subscribers of those companies.
This question was answered on 28th January 2020
The Ministry of Defence has not extracted DNA from fallen soldiers to share with ancestry companies.