Question follow-through · 8161
Veterans: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the amount of compensation available to LGBT veterans following the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 9 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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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
9 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the amount of compensation available to LGBT veterans following the LGBT Veterans Independent Review, published in May 2023.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government acknowledges the historic policy prohibiting homosexuality in the Armed Forces was regrettable, wrong and completely unacceptable. The treatment of LGBT Serving personnel between 1967 and 2000 was wholly unacceptable and does not reflect to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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