Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 5769

Veterans: LGBT+ People

Tabled: 12 September 2024

Answered: 16 October 2024

Named Day

Question

Mike Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to remove the £50 million cap on reparation payments to LGBT veterans, in the context of the value of average payments that would be provided to those veterans under that cap.

Answer

Al Carns

We deeply regret the treatment of LGBT Service personnel between 1967 and 2000, which was wholly unacceptable and does not reflect today’s Armed Forces. We are fully committed to ensuring this issue receives Parliamentary scrutiny. We have already impleme...

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