House of Lords written question – answered at on 5 November 2012.
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reconsider the decision to forbid the acceptance of the Ushakov medal by survivors of the Arctic Convoys.
In May and July of this year the Russian embassy asked for permission for the Ushakov Medal to be accepted by Arctic Convoy veterans. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) considered the request on a case by case basis under the current British rules on the acceptance of foreign awards but permission for the medal to be accepted could not be given. The information supplied by the Russian embassy did not show that the individuals named by the Russian embassy had given specific service to Russia within the past five years, as required by the current rules. The FCO did inform the Russian embassy that should they wish to nominate recipients who had given recent service to Russia those cases could be reconsidered.
The noble Lord may wish to note that Sir John Holmes, in his Military Medals Review published on
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