Syria: Armed Conflict

Prime Minister written question – answered at on 23 July 2015.

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Photo of Brendan O'Hara Brendan O'Hara Shadow SNP Westminster Group Leader (Defence)

To ask the Prime Minister, when he was first informed of the involvement of British military personnel in military actions in Syria after the vote against military action in Syria on 30 August 2013.

Photo of David Cameron David Cameron The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party

It is a long-standing policy of the government, and previous governments going back for over half a century, to embed military personnel in a whole range of countries. I was aware that the Defence Secretary authorised the first embed with US forces in Syria in the autumn of last year.

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George Morley
Posted on 24 Jul 2015 6:48 pm (Report this annotation)

Malaya, the Yemen and many other places have had the UK military and I was in both of those places that I mentioned but if I had retired there I would be deprived of my state pension uprating along with many other ex-service who are retired abroad.
So the same applies to the Frozen Pension policy which has been in place for decades and decades although that is now given as a valid reason to do nothing about it but continue the deprivation.