Question follow-through · 495
LGBT Veterans Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made in implementing the remaining recommendations of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review. published in May 2023.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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- Veterans: Employment Schemes · 18 Jul 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made in implementing the remaining recommendations of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review. published in May 2023.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jul 2024
Answer published
Since the publication of Lord Etherton’s Independent Review in June 2023, and the Government response in December 2024, Defence continues to work at pace to deliver the intent behind the report’s recommendations. As of 18 July 2024, 30 of the 49 recommend...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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