Headquarters Defence Medical
Services Secretariat
Headquarters Defence Medical Services
Coltman House
Defence Medical Services Whittington
Tamworth Rd
Lichfield
WS14 9PY
Gavin Roberts
Reference:
FOI2023/00785
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: 7 February 2023
Dear Mr Roberts,
Thank you for your enquiry of 19 January 2023 to the Ministry of Defence (MOD), in which you
asked the following:
“Did MOD have any agreements/contracts with vaccine suppliers MerieuxUK or
Wellcome (Now GSK) or the NHS that procured the vaccines on MOD behalf? in
reference to immunity to any injury that their vaccines may cause in the Gulf War
1991. Pertussis vaccines.
Also what was the reason MOD had the NHS purchase these vaccines? We can't find
any evidence of this happening before or post Gulf War 91. It seems very strange.
More corruption/malfeasance maybe?’
Your enquiry is being treated as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) 2000. A search for the information has now been completed within the Ministry of Defence,
and I can confirm that no information in scope of your request is held.
If you have any queries regarding the content of this letter, please contact this office.
If you wish to complain about the handling of your request, or the content of this response, you can
request an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance team,
Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx). Please
note that any request for an internal review should be made within 40 working days of the date of
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If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may raise your complaint directly to the
Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the FOIA. Please note that the
Information Commissioner will not normally investigate your case until the MOD internal review
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Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Further details
of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's
website at
https://ico.org.uk/. Yours sincerely,
HQ Defence Medical Services