Question follow-through · 86328
Armed Forces: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84961 on Legal costs for ‘Soldier F’, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for pastoral care provided to (a) Soldier F and (b
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84961 on Legal costs for ‘Soldier F’, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for pastoral care provided to (a) Soldier F and (b
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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4 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence do not provide pastoral care to those who have not served. Pastoral care provided to Soldier F during his legal proceedings involved the time of various employees and multiple organisations across the Department. Most of the associ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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Armed Forces: Northern Ireland
30 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84961 on Armed Forces: Northern Ireland, what the hourly rate of legal fees paid to (a) Senior Counsel, (b) Junior Counsel and (c) solicitors instructed durin
Armed Forces: Northern Ireland
30 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2025 to Question 84961 on Armed Forces: Northern Ireland, whether there were any remuneration capping arrangements applied to legal costs incurred in the defence of Soldier F;