This section contains reports about significant events that occured during the 1990/1991 Gulf conflict, briefings and reports to the House of Commons Defence Committee, and miscellaneous information. The papers and reports produced by the Ministry of Defence’s Gulf Veterans’ Illnesses Unit (now re-named as Veterans Policy Unit Gulf Veterans' Illnesses) are intended to address issues of concern to veterans of the 1990/1991 Gulf Conflict.

To assist in finding the information you are looking for the reports have been divided into the sub categories given below:

Reports describing Iraqi chemical and biological warfare capability and the UK defensive measures.

Information about depleted uranium (DU), including the policy on testing for DU in UK veterans.

This section contains three documents, Attributable Benefits for Reservists, The Gulf Trust and a link to the Veterans Agency.

This section contains all the issues of Gulf Update we have published.

Reports describing medical countermeasures (vaccines and NAPS tablets) during the 1990/1991 conflict.

A report published in October 2001. The aim of this publication is to provide a simple explanation of the relevant parts of the Service medical documentation system, to describe how it was used during Gulf deployment of 1990/1991, to explain the generic reasons why a record may no longer exist and to provide points of contact which veterans can use in seeking to obtain their medical records. It should be clearly understood that this paper refers to Service medical records. The medical records of dependants belong to the National Health Service and the MOD has no right of access to them except on the basis of MOD employed doctors (Service or civilian) providing medical services.

Information on the use of organophosphate pesticides in the Gulf.

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