Commonwealth Servicemen and Women

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at on 20 May 2019.

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Photo of Richard Graham Richard Graham Conservative, Gloucester

In her first departmental questions, may I warmly congratulate our first ever female Defence Secretary?

I thank the Minister for his continued support on this cross-party cause, about which my letter has been signed by almost 150 MPs from five parties in this House. While I recognise what he has said about the possibility of precedents being set by changes to the immigration legislation, does my right hon. Friend agree that it should be perfectly possible to make an amendment to the armed forces provision in the Immigration Act 1971 so that our Commonwealth servicemen and women can apply free of charge?