Question follow-through · 98084
Armed Forces: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help prevent armed forces personnel from developing mental and behavioural disorders.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 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
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help prevent armed forces personnel from developing mental and behavioural disorders.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) encourages personnel to consider their mental fitness as equally as important as their physical fitness promoting good mental resilience and mitigating the negative impacts of potential traumatic experiences. The Department e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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