Question follow-through · 57902
LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many payments have been issued under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 5 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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
5 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many payments have been issued under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
As of 9 June 2025, 44 Veterans had received payments through the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme (FRS). Payments made by the FRS are not compensation payments and do not seek to compensate for any pecuniary losses or attempt to place personnel in a fina...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Veterans: Terminal Illnesses
6 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on issuing payments to terminally ill veterans under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a timeline for the delivery of new vessels under the Fleet Solid Support contract with Navantia.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary: Training
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many seafarer (a) apprentices and (b) cadets have been trained by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
Merchant Shipping: Training
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Chapter 7.2 of the Strategic Defence Review 2025, what discussions he is having with the Secretary of State for Transport on the rates for (a) training and (b) employment for UK resident civilia
Armed Forces: Asbestos
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of compensation for service personnel who develop lung cancer and other asbestos-related diseases as a result of exposure to asbestos
Armed Forces: Asbestos
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the level of compensation available to service personnel who develop mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos.
Veterans: Asbestos
10 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he will consider including those veterans who were exposed to asbestos pre-1987 whilst on active service and who later contract lung cancer in the 2016 lump sum compensation scheme payable currently only