Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 5391

LGBT Veterans Independent Review

Tabled: 11 September 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Departments plans to implement all recommendations in the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published on 19 July 2023; what his planned timetable is for the implementation of recommendations; and how

Answer

Al Carns
The Government acknowledges the historic policy prohibiting homosexuality in the Armed Forces was regrettable, wrong and completely unacceptable. The treatment of LGBT Serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 was wholly unacceptable and does not reflect to...

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