To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent estimate he has made of the number of UK service personnel who served in the 1990-91 Gulf conflict and as a result of injuries sustained there have embedded uranium shrapnel. (151763)

We are not aware of any incidents involving injury to UK service personnel in the 1990-91 Gulf conflict resulting in embedded depleted uranium shrapnel injuries. This is supported by the recent findings of the Depleted Uranium Oversight Board (DUOB) which was established in 2001 to oversee a screening programme for veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf conflict and subsequent Balkans operations concerned about possible exposure to depleted uranium. I announced the publication of the final report of the DUOB on 26 March 2007, Official Report, column 64WS.