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Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Armed Forces: Discharges (25 May 2022)

Leo Docherty: The Ministry of Defence and the Office for Veterans’ Affairs within the Cabinet Office are jointly commissioning an independent review to better understand the impacts and implications of the pre 2000 ban on homosexuals serving in the Armed Forces. The review underlines Defence’s unwavering commitment to understanding how best to support its veteran and LGBT+ community. Defence recognises...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Reserve Forces: Medals (25 Apr 2022)

Baroness Goldie: ...long service and efficiency awards as UK Reserve Forces. With successive policy changes over the past few decades and particularly following the introduction of the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal in 1999, it is acknowledged there is a need to ensure clarity in relation to the grounds for eligibility. The basis for continued eligibility to UK awards is currently under review and the...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: World War II: Medals (28 Mar 2022)

Leo Docherty: ...and the major contribution that Bomber Command made to the Allied victory in the Second World War in the face of significant losses, remains appreciated by the Government. Following the independent Medal Review in 2012 by Sir John Holmes, a Bomber Command Clasp to the 1939-45 Star was introduced for aircrew who served in Bomber Command. The Department has no plans to recommend that a...

Health and Care Bill - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 64 ( 3 Mar 2022)

Lord Farmer: ...family hubs, and for family hubs being included in statutory guidance for integrated care services and bespoke guidance specifically covering family help. However, we are talking about the bronze medal position. Gold medal is primary legislation, silver is secondary, and statutory guidance is bronze, although at least we are on the podium. As the Minister said, this is ongoing. They are...

Sanctions (22 Feb 2022)

Liam Byrne: ...an adversary in Russia that has got to be stopped. This is a country that fights us in cyber-space and on the streets of Salisbury. It is a country that meddles in elections and cheats in winning medals. It is reckless in space. It shells its neighbours. Its ambitions are limitless and its tactics are merciless. The question we have to confront is: how much longer are we prepared to...

Defence: Veterans Strategy (10 Jan 2022)

Leo Docherty: We will keep this under review but we regard it as a matter for the advisory military sub-committee on medallic recognition.

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 1 ( 8 Dec 2021)

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames: ...in the hands not of the courts but of the Home Secretary. Any Home Secretary, not just this one, is subject to political pressures. Were a victim, for example, the holder of a Queen’s Police Medal, and there was a campaign to keep the offender in custody on that account, how easy would it be for this or a future Home Secretary to succumb to pressure to keep the offender subject to a life...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Armed Forces: Discharges ( 8 Nov 2021)

Leo Docherty: ...that, because of their sexuality, some members of the Armed Forces were, in the past, treated in a way that would not be acceptable today. Following a policy announcement on the return of medals on 16 February 2021, the Ministry of Defence has received five applications from former Armed Forces personnel who were discharged for reasons related to their sexuality, and who forfeited their...

Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge) ( 2 Nov 2021)

Johnny Mercer: With respect, I have spoken a lot about nuclear test veterans. I was the only Minister who met their group, and I have spoken about the fight to get some sort of medallic recognition. I reviewed the nuclear—

Reopening Local Police Stations — [Yvonne Fovargue in the Chair] (27 Oct 2021)

Richard Drax: ...in particular. That is very good news. StreetSafe, where unsafe or uncomfortable public places can be anonymously reported online, is a valuable addition. I also welcome Dorset’s independent review of local criminal justice response to rape and serious sexual offences. Finally, we must not forget that police officers now operate in more difficult conditions. We see that every day,...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Military Decorations: Reserve Forces (25 Oct 2021)

Leo Docherty: The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal was awarded to all personnel who were in effective military service with the Volunteer Reserve Forces on 6 February 2002 and had completed five annual bounty earning training years, for which a certificate of efficiency would have been received, and who were properly enlisted on, or prior to, 7 February 1997. The annual bounty training year 2001/2002 was...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Military Decorations: Reserve Forces (25 Oct 2021)

Leo Docherty: Reserve forces personnel are fully eligible for all state honours, operational awards, and campaign medals, providing they are recommended and meet the associated eligibility criteria. In addition, they are eligible for the award of the Volunteer Reserve Services Medal (VRSM) when long service and conduct criteria is met - this award is similar in criteria to the award of the Long Service &...

Artificial Intelligence (20 Oct 2021)

George Freeman: ...AI technologies, behind only the USA and China. That is an extraordinary global advantage. AI is going to be as transformational as computing, and we are currently in bronze position in the Olympic medal table. We have a huge lead. It is important that we do not drop that lead, and that we build on it to create a prosperous economy. A third of Europe’s AI companies are here in the UK,...

Environment Bill - Report (3rd Day): Amendment 52 (13 Sep 2021)

Lord Browne of Ladyton: ...a burgeoning shooting business—in fact, my country, Scotland, has lots of Danes shooting there in all the shooting seasons who tell me that they do it in Denmark very successfully, and they win medals from sports shooting targets with steel ammunition. There already exists an acknowledgement of the need for change to support a market for healthy game meat, which we should encourage...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Veterans: Radiation Exposure (13 Sep 2021)

Leo Docherty: The Independent Advisory Military Sub-Committee (AMSC) was re-established in 2019 to offer advice to the Committee on the Grant of Honours Decorations and Medals (the HD Committee) in the Cabinet Office on historic military medals claims, including cases which may not have been previously considered or where new evidence has emerged. The HD Committee is the principal body with responsibility...

Scotland: Ferry Services: Scotland to Europe ( 8 Sep 2021)

Alister Jack: Let me start by saying that the Scottish athletes of Team GB have returned triumphant from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games with a record total of 14 medals, surpassing the 13 medals won by Scottish athletes at both the London and Rio Olympics. At the Paralympic games, the Scots of ParalympicsGB won an impressive 21 medals. I congratulate every athlete who competed. I also congratulate the...

Armed Forces Bill - Second Reading ( 7 Sep 2021)

Lord Tunnicliffe: .... We support the Bill’s main principle and welcome steps for the creation of a legal duty of due regard to the principles of the covenant and the implementation of elements of the Lyons review. I have been struck by the cross-party support for the issues my noble friend outlined at the start of the debate: widening the scope of the legislation to ensure that all areas of potential...

Afghanistan ( 6 Sep 2021)

Keir Starmer: ...Pitting, I say thank you: your service deserves recognition and honour and I hope that the Prime Minister will accept Labour’s proposal to scrap the 30-day continuous service rule so that medals can be awarded for your bravery. The entire Army, our armed forces and veterans deserve proper support for mental health. The new funding announced today is welcome, but it is unlikely to be...

Written Answers — Ministry of Defence: Military Decorations ( 6 Sep 2021)

Leo Docherty: The Government holds the professionalism, courage and contribution of all those who have served in our Armed Forces in the very highest regard. Sir John Holmes' independent review of the policy governing the award of military medals, which concluded in 2014, was subject to detailed discussion by the Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals. Sir John Holmes and the Committee...

Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Committee on the Grant of Honours, Decorations and Medals: Public Appointments ( 6 Sep 2021)

Chloe Smith: The assessment of historic medals claims is a matter for the independent Advisory Military Sub-Committee (AMSC) whose terms of reference are publicly available on gov.uk. The independent chair of the AMSC was appointed through open and fair competition via a public appointments process. The AMSC has a majority of independent members who were recruited for their working knowledge of HM Armed...


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