DEFENCE UNDER Secretary Derek Twigg told Parliament that the Metrix Consortium has been declared the preferred bidder
for package 1 of the defence training review programme. “For package 2,” he said, “there is a significant affordability gap and work has been ongoing to develop a whole programme solution.
“The scale of the facility to be constructed at St Athan will therefore depend on the outcome of this further work
with Metrix.”
Watching brief
THE MOD maintains a watching brief on the published scientific literature relating to the health implications of embedded
uranium shrapnel, Defence Under Secretary Derek Twigg said. “On this basis,” he said in a written reply to a Parliamentary question, “our current view is that, although ongoing surveillance of veterans with embedded shrapnel is prudent, there
is currently no indication of uranium-related health effects in any of the veterans studied.
“As part of this ongoing surveillance, we recently offered follow-up monitoring to the small group of
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