United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 9633
Veterans: DNA
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29 January 2020
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4 February 2020 · Answer
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4 February 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 6631, for what reasons his Department does not extract DNA from the remains of unidentified British soldiers found on former battlefields.
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29 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 January 2020 to Question 6631, for what reasons his Department does not extract DNA from the remains of unidentified British soldiers found on former battlefields.
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4 February 2020
Answer
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does extract DNA from the remains of some unidentified British soldiers found on former battlefields. Due to the cost of DNA extraction and processing, MOD only recover DNA from historic casualties where it has been possible ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-29/9633
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1174290
- uk · wq-1174290 · source updated 4 February 2020