Question follow-through · 94371

Armed Forces: Personation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of criminalising those who impersonate a (a) serving member of the armed forces or (b) veteran.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 25 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2025
Answer: 3 Dec 2025 · 8 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

25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of criminalising those who impersonate a (a) serving member of the armed forces or (b) veteran.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has made no assessment of introducing new offences for impersonating Armed Forces personnel or Veterans and has no current plans to consider criminalising such impersonation, given that existing measures already apply in cert...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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