Question follow-through · 85195
Armed Forces: Separation
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to provide stable family homes for children of serving military personnel whose parents have separated.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Members: Correspondence · 3 Dec 2025
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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
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to provide stable family homes for children of serving military personnel whose parents have separated.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
Defence recognises the needs of separating families and provides specific policy on accommodation to meet the needs of entitled Service personnel and their spouse in these circumstances. The Ministry of Defence remains committed to widening entitlement to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Members: Correspondence
3 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to correspondence from the hon. Member for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry of 24 October 2025, with the transfer to his department accepted on 3 November 2025.