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Dear Gavin Roberts, 

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. Your request is being dealt with under the
terms of the FOI Act and will be answered within twenty working days. Your
reference number is FOI-2308-2012208.

For further information regarding the FOI Act, please refer to the website
of the [1]Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). For further information
regarding NHS England, and the information we publish, please visit [2]our
website.

If you have any queries about this request or wish to contact us again,
please email [3][NHS England request email] and the message will be
forwarded appropriately. Please remember to quote the above reference
number in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [4][NHS England request email] 

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Dear Gavin Roberts,

We refer to your email of 11 August 2023 in which you requested
information under the FOI Act from NHS England.
 
Your request

You made the following request:

In 1990 you procured pertussis vaccines for the use of MOD from Wellcome
(now GSK) & MeriuxUK.

My question is were there any immunity agreements put in place between
these companies & NHS .

Also was there any immunity agreements in place between NHS & MOD?

Did NHS Protect itself from claims from the damage caused?

Decision

NHS England does not hold information relating to your request.

Please be aware this information is likely to be held by Department for
Health and Social Care (DHSC) as [1]they procured this on behalf of the
Ministry of Defence. As this is the case you may wish to contact them
directly through the below link.

Website:
[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati...

FOI Email:
[3][email address]

Copyright

NHS England operates under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL).
Terms and conditions can be found on the following link:

[4]http://www.england.nhs.uk/terms-and-cond...

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previously been involved with your request, will undertake that review.

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complain to the Information Commissioner for a decision on whether your
request for information has been dealt with in accordance with the FOI
Act.

A request for an internal review should be submitted in writing to
[5][NHS England request email]

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
NHS England
 

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Dear Gavin Roberts,

Thank you for your communication dated 11 September 2023, 

NHS England has assessed your communication as a request under the Freedom
of Information (FOI) Act 2000. As such, your request is being dealt with
under the terms of the FOI Act, and has been allocated the following
reference number: FOI-2309-2021424.

Your exact request was:

“Did NHS protect itself from Lawsuits from Gulf War Veterans 1991
following supplying MOD with pertussis for Gulf War Trooos in full
knowledge it was not licensed safe to do so?”

NHS England does not hold information in relation to your request.
 

It may help if we first explain that NHS England is not the same as ‘the
NHS in England’. The NHS in England is not a single organisation but is
made up of a range of organisations such as Hospitals and Integrated Care
Boards (ICBs). Therefore, any recorded information NHS England may be able
to provide in response to an FOI request will generally relate to the
services NHS England commissions.
 

On this occasion NHS England is unable to confirm who would hold the
requested information. 

We hope this information is helpful. However, if you are dissatisfied, you
have the right to ask for an internal review. This should be requested in
writing within two months of the date of this letter. Your correspondence
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and/or the area(s) you would like the review to consider. Internal Review
requests should be sent to:

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Email: [1][NHS England request email]

Please quote the reference number shown above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
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Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information
Communications Team
Strategy Directorate

NHS England
PO Box 16738
REDDITCH
B97 9PT

Tel: 0300 311 22 33
Email: [4][NHS England request email] 

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