Question follow-through · 57932
Armed Forces: Bereavement Counselling
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve the specialist support available to bereaved military families.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- LGBT Veterans Independent Review · 6 Jun 2025
- Veterans: Mental Health Services · 6 Jun 2025
- Veterans: Homosexuality · 6 Jun 2025
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
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
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve the specialist support available to bereaved military families.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
Defence provides active and comprehensive support to the families of those Service personnel who die in Service. We take a holistic, multi-agency approach to supporting the bereaved with assistance provided through the single Services, the Defence Bereave...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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LGBT Veterans Independent Review
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Veterans: Mental Health Services
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Veterans: Homosexuality
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has considered introducing (a) automatic awards and (b) simplified applications for people with confirmed records of dismissal for homosexuality; and if he will make an assessment of the po